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In 1997, he produced the documentary A Girl Against The Mafia : Diary of a Sicilian Rebel (Diario di una siciliana ribelle) made by Italian filmmaker Marco Amenta. The movie was selected in the official selection (out of competition) of the 54th Venice Film Festival. It received a special commendation at the 1998 Prix Europa (non-fiction category), rewarding the best European films of the year. The documentary was screened in more than twenty festivals around the world and received the Los Angeles Italian Film Award. It was the first documentary to be aired on prime time on an an Italian public TV channel, RAI TV.

The documentary, supported by the French independent distributor Les Mutins de Pangée, has been released in several cinemas in France in the fall of 2019 in the presence of the filmmaker. Florent Marcie attended the Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival in 2019 during which he showed his films and gave a masterclass.

The A.I. AT WAR project (2017-2021)
Florent Marcie's new film, A.I. AT WAR tells the story of Sota, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) robot. The director confronts the humanoid machine with the tragedy of mankind. The robot's journey in war zones takes place in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, Syria, among the ruins of the Islamic State, and later in Paris, France, during the Yellow Vests uprising.

The director was wounded in the head in January 2019 by a police shooting while filming at a demonstration of the Yellow Vest Movement. Following this, Florent Marcie denounced the abusive use of this weapon by police officers in a column for the online newspaper Mediapart.

The world premiere of the film took place on October 28, 2021 in Vienna for the 2021 Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale). Curator Roger Koza said that « the The interaction between Marcie and Sota is almost unbelievable, because the latter’s learning (she has a woman’s voice) capacity is verified and because her eyes are also a camera ». The film was later seen in the Doc Buenos Aires International Documentary Festival. Film critic Guido Pellegrini praised an « unsual documentary », a « buddy movie » and a « bildungsroman » with a « forceful and subtle political message : « if artificial intelligence, among other tools, is turning war into something abstract, a remote chess game, then he takes artificial intelligence into the trenches. ».

Filmography

 * The Tunnel Tribe (La tribu du tunnel, 1995, 49 min). A year in the life of Richard, Sylvain, Nono and Calou, who live with their four dogs in a train tunnel in the Petite Ceinture region of Paris.
 * Under the Trees of Ajiep (Sous les arbres d'Ajiep, 1998, 64 min). South Sudan, summer 1998. Famine. How a young Sudanese mother tries to survive with her two little girls when she arrives in a camp.
 * Saïa (Saïa, 2000, 30 min). A front line, at night, in Afghanistan.
 * The kiosk and the war (Le Kiosque et la guerre, 2003, 52 min). In the spring of 2003, as the first American bombs fall on Iraq, a camera films the front pages of magazines sliding on the front of a Parisian newsstand...
 * Itchkeri Kenti (Itchéri Kenti, les Fils de l'Itchkérie2006, 145 min). Winter 1996, Chechen war. A young French director, armed with a painting canvas, travels clandestinely through the country to meet a people in resistance.
 * Humanitarian Generation (2009, 90 min). Portrait of a group of humanitarian workers in Chad.
 * Commander Khawani (Commandant Khawani, 2014, 86 min). The story of an Afghan commander and his men on the front line at Bagram.
 * Tomorrow Tripoli (Tomorrow Tripoli, 2015, 173 min). The Libyan revolution filmed from the inside with Zintan rebels in Jebel Nefoussa.