
Brits in France: Escaping Brexit Chaos
Thousands of Britons have swapped Brexit Britain for rural France, and this film follows some of the roughly 9,000 who have settled in the Dordogne. Nicola and Graham Parker sold their house in England and bought an old country estate in Montignac-de-Lauzun, chasing a slower, cheaper life away from the economic squeeze back home. But leaving the EU has made their new life harder, not easier: residence permits, French language tests, and citizenship exams now stand between them and the settled status they expected. The film sits in on these bureaucratic encounters and talks to other British transplants navigating the same paperwork, while also giving voice to French locals who resent the influx of English newcomers into their villages. Interviews and on-location footage of the Dordogne countryside carry the story, tracking how a political decision made in London reshapes daily life for people who now belong fully to neither country. It is a small, specific portrait of Brexit's aftershocks, told through the people absorbing them.