38th edition 2023 short & midlength films
One Saturday morning, at the bus stop near her high school, Cécile meets Léna and helps her out. Dragged into a story that is not her own, Cécile slowly sees the trajectory of her day get shaken up.
After working as a screenwriter on several films, Mathilde Profit directed her first short film in 2019, Un adieu (Prix Jean Vigo 2020). She is currently writing her first feature film, Le courage, again with the support of Apaches Films.
- Scénario
- Mathilde PROFIT, Julie DEBITON
- Photographie
- Alan GUICHAOUA
- Son
- Olivier PELLETIER
- Montage
- Raphaël LEFEVRE
- Musique
- P.R2B
- Décors
- Valentine GAUTHIER
- Production
- Jeanne EZVAN, Marthe LAMY (Apaches Films)
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A word from the selection committee :
The lethargy of a classroom. Sunshine lights up the faces of focused or sleeping pupils. The bell rings. Saturday 12pm, high school is over, and Lena tells a friend she’ll “catch up later”, on the way to her bus stop. There, she experiences an unsettling encounter with a devastated young woman. In her second film, with a masterful mise-en-scène, Mathilde Profit analyses the seemingly mundane events that make us who we are, these stark teenage memories that determine our lives, even if we don’t really know why. Lena is drawn to that woman, to her story, and the event upsets her to the extent that she starts secretly guarding her own home; an absurd, yet necessary, impulse, before she recovers and resumes her life.