Making Of

When celebrated French director Simon begins shooting a socially charged drama about workers fighting to save their factory, he expects creative triumph—but the production quickly unravels into chaos. His producer, Viviane, pushes for a safer, rewritten ending and threatens to slash the budget, the crew stages a strike, Simon's personal life crumbles, and his lead actor Alain proves to be insufferably vain. Amid the collapse, Joseph, a determined extra with dreams of breaking into filmmaking, volunteers to shoot the behind-the-scenes footage and ends up shadowing the whole set, capturing every fracture, argument, and small kindness.

The result is a razor-sharp, often hilarious portrait of art-making under pressure, where backstage drama eclipses the intended message of the film within a film. Joseph’s candid footage exposes the messy collisions of ego, class, and ambition and reveals how the theatre of production can be more revealing—and more human—than the finished movie. Equal parts satire and tender observation, Making Of (2024) turns cinematic failure into a compelling study of creativity, compromise, and the people who keep movies alive.