Mika Ex Machina
Mika Tard & Deborah Saïag / France / 2025 / 97 min
Free-wheeling docu-comedy about two Parisian women trying to figure out who is behind the sabotage of their motorbike. A mischievous play with form, fiction and your expectations.
It starts out as a joke. Someone is leaving mysterious gifts on Mika’s motorbike in the Marais district in the heart of Paris, where she lives with her partner Deborah. But one day, the mysterious stranger has put a padlock on the chain causing Mika to nearly crash her bike. Who is behind it? What do the strange gifts mean? Is an angry ex on the loose? With the help of a large and eager group of friends, Mika and Deborah pull out all the stops to solve the mystery and find the culprit. But even though it starts out as a joke, the paranoia is real enough – or at least as real as it gets in a mischievous docu-comedy that constantly plays with both fiction and one’s expectations.