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Filmography
Monsieur · fiction · 23’ · 2019
produced by Dharamsala
broadcast on Canal+
Winner of the Sofilm/canal+ genre residency
Winner of a residency grant from the National Center of Cinema (CNC)
Coproduced with Pictanovo and the Hauts-de-France region
Clermont-Ferrand, NewFest New York, Beijing Queer FF, Aubagne, Angoulême, Fête du court métrage Amiens, SESIFF, Side by Side, Cinémarges, Festival Cinéma & Musique de Film de La Baule, Melbourne Queer FF, Seattle Queer FF, New Filmmakers Los Angeles, Désir Désirs, Cinéfranco, Bucharest Film Awards, For Rainbow, Indianapolis LGBTFF
produced by Dharamsala
broadcast on Canal+
Winner of the Sofilm/canal+ genre residency
Winner of a residency grant from the National Center of Cinema (CNC)
Coproduced with Pictanovo and the Hauts-de-France region
Clermont-Ferrand, NewFest New York, Beijing Queer FF, Aubagne, Angoulême, Fête du court métrage Amiens, SESIFF, Side by Side, Cinémarges, Festival Cinéma & Musique de Film de La Baule, Melbourne Queer FF, Seattle Queer FF, New Filmmakers Los Angeles, Désir Désirs, Cinéfranco, Bucharest Film Awards, For Rainbow, Indianapolis LGBTFF
Synopsis: Georgie and Stan are two friends living in a small town in northern France. When Georgie finds out that his idol is going to the "Mister Northern France" pageant, his friend Stan, the event videographer, helps him enter the pageant. With the pressure of the mounting, the two friends realize their feelings for one another.
Starring: Régis N'Kissi, Hugo Henner, Joëlle Gaumet
DOP: Sarah Boutin
Sound: Paul Guilloteau
Editing: Jean Costa
Original score: Florian Billon, Antoine Boulé & Ulysse Klotz
DOP: Sarah Boutin
Sound: Paul Guilloteau
Editing: Jean Costa
Original score: Florian Billon, Antoine Boulé & Ulysse Klotz
Bastion · documentary · 27’ · 2021
produced by Kalpa Films
Winner of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Film Workout post-production grant
FIFIB, Sapporo (mention programmer's delight)
produced by Kalpa Films
Winner of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Film Workout post-production grant
FIFIB, Sapporo (mention programmer's delight)
Synopsis: My dad is candidate for mayor of our hometown. From the sidelines, my mom watches him campaign. I film them both.
Editing: Jean Costa & Thomas Ducastel
Original score: Florian Billon
Editing: Jean Costa & Thomas Ducastel
Original score: Florian Billon
Late Camp · documentary feature film
produced by Don Quichotte Films
Developed at the Documentary Writing course at La Fémis
Synopsis : When I was fifteen, I spent a year in a small town in Michigan as an exchange student. It was the year of my first romantic and sexual experiences and my coming out. It was also that revealed what would become a diffuclt relationship with intimacy. Fifteen years on, I come to the painful realization that I still have trouble with vulnerability. So I decide to return to Michigan to find my host father of the time, and to his twelve other host sons now scattered around the world. By confronting with them my sexual and sentimental discomforts, and theirs, I'd like to pose the question of male affection more broadly: friendly, parental, sexual, and amorous. In this space between two men, can tenderness prevail over shame? Love over fear?
produced by Don Quichotte Films
Developed at the Documentary Writing course at La Fémis
Synopsis : When I was fifteen, I spent a year in a small town in Michigan as an exchange student. It was the year of my first romantic and sexual experiences and my coming out. It was also that revealed what would become a diffuclt relationship with intimacy. Fifteen years on, I come to the painful realization that I still have trouble with vulnerability. So I decide to return to Michigan to find my host father of the time, and to his twelve other host sons now scattered around the world. By confronting with them my sexual and sentimental discomforts, and theirs, I'd like to pose the question of male affection more broadly: friendly, parental, sexual, and amorous. In this space between two men, can tenderness prevail over shame? Love over fear?
Blueprint · fiction feature film
Synopsis : Julien, 17, lives with his mother Ana, who suffers from chronic depression. When Ana decides to place himself under psychiatric observation in hospital, she takes Julien to stay with his father Arnaud, whom he doesn't know very well and who lives an hour's drive away with his wife, Giselle. There, Julien meets Eden, the son of Giselle's friends, also a senior in high school. During this short stay, they grow attracted to one another. They fall in love and begin a relationship punctuated by Julien's return trips to see Eden. They decide to apply to the same architecture school and move to Paris together. The relationship reveals in Julien the after-effects of a childhood spent under the spectre of Ana's depression, and the extent of an anxiety that has become a second skin. Over the years, this is a story of self-acceptance through love.
Synopsis : Julien, 17, lives with his mother Ana, who suffers from chronic depression. When Ana decides to place himself under psychiatric observation in hospital, she takes Julien to stay with his father Arnaud, whom he doesn't know very well and who lives an hour's drive away with his wife, Giselle. There, Julien meets Eden, the son of Giselle's friends, also a senior in high school. During this short stay, they grow attracted to one another. They fall in love and begin a relationship punctuated by Julien's return trips to see Eden. They decide to apply to the same architecture school and move to Paris together. The relationship reveals in Julien the after-effects of a childhood spent under the spectre of Ana's depression, and the extent of an anxiety that has become a second skin. Over the years, this is a story of self-acceptance through love.
Nord · fiction feature film
Casell'arte residency
Synopsis : When the architectural firm where she works is asked to design the future Immigration Museum in Marseille, Nawel returns to her hometown to work on the project. She hadn't been back since the building collapse that claimed the life of her lover five years ago. The tragedy had driven a deep wedge between her and her older brother Farid, who has since become an opposition councillor. As Nawel becomes caught up in the political machinations surrounding the museum, her reunion with her town and her brother plunges her back into a past from which she had fled, and challenges her convictions.
Casell'arte residency
Synopsis : When the architectural firm where she works is asked to design the future Immigration Museum in Marseille, Nawel returns to her hometown to work on the project. She hadn't been back since the building collapse that claimed the life of her lover five years ago. The tragedy had driven a deep wedge between her and her older brother Farid, who has since become an opposition councillor. As Nawel becomes caught up in the political machinations surrounding the museum, her reunion with her town and her brother plunges her back into a past from which she had fled, and challenges her convictions.
Vent Tendre · fiction short film
produced by Kalpa Films & Mood Films
Med In Scénario residency at Les Nuits Med film festival in Corsica
Finalist of the SACD-Beaumarchais writing grant
Synopsis : Ben and Ihab are married. Ben is a dancer, Ihab a choreographer. They are completing a creative residency in Corsica. Their ties are slowly cracking.
produced by Kalpa Films & Mood Films
Med In Scénario residency at Les Nuits Med film festival in Corsica
Finalist of the SACD-Beaumarchais writing grant
Synopsis : Ben and Ihab are married. Ben is a dancer, Ihab a choreographer. They are completing a creative residency in Corsica. Their ties are slowly cracking.
Cirrus · fiction short film
produced by Don Quichotte Films
Recipient of the Corsica short film writing fund
Synopsis : A strange contamination, which creates a strange metamorphosis of the human body, has begun to spread. In a small moutain town, Nara's job is to guide those close to death to the summits, where they can die without spreading the disease.
produced by Don Quichotte Films
Recipient of the Corsica short film writing fund
Synopsis : A strange contamination, which creates a strange metamorphosis of the human body, has begun to spread. In a small moutain town, Nara's job is to guide those close to death to the summits, where they can die without spreading the disease.