Philippe Borrel is a French filmmaker, working mostly on documentaries produced mainly for ARTE TV and France Television. His films take on the dystopia & utopia of our times such as the stakes of the Commons and the Free software movement, or the urgency of degrowth and alternatives worlwide, or tranhumanism and the ongoing technological convergence (NBIC), or the side effects of processed food industry on human health worldwide, or democracy & the anti-war movement in the US, or eco-warriors being criminalized while fighting to save our planet…

At the end of 2018, he has completed the production of his tenth documentary film (Temps noir production), dedicated to the Free software movement worldwide and to the stakes of the Commons. Since 2020 this film is available in two versions. The first one - long & original - is entitled "La bataille du Libre" (87') which was warded for its long original version "La bataille du Libre" with a special mention: "Coup de coeur" by the jury of the 15th Terra Festival (in Guadeloupe) in April 2019, selected at the Festival Cinéma et Droits de l'Homme 2020 in Toulouse, at the International Human Rights Film Festival 2020 in Tunis and at the 15th Festival du Film Vert 2020 in Switzerland as the "flagship" film (film phare) of this edition with 60 public screenings throughout Switzerland in March-April 2020. The English version of "La bataille du Libre" was completed in March 2020 thanks to an online crowdfounding. It is entitled "Hacking for the Commons" (87' long).

After producing "A World Beyond Humans ?" in 2012 about the impact of technology on our lives, his movie "The Invisible (R)evolutions" (2014) deals with the urgency of a major shift of paradigme in a world about to collapse, enslaved by finance and speculation.