40th edition Short and medium films 2025
Two cousins, Jean and Estelle, meet up for a walk. They're happy to see each other, but it's a strange year: whole swathes of the forest have been cut down and the paths have disappeared. Soon, a young man who had been sleeping under the trees crosses their path. He brings the sun with him.
Competes for the One+One Award
After studying cinematography, David Ingels directed Les Fleurs blanches et la lune with the support of G.R.E.C. (2022), and self-produced Et quand l’aube viendra (2023). Bel Companho won the Jean Vigo Award in 2025.
A word from the selection committee :
With only three short films to his name, David Engels has already forged a distinctive relationship with the contemporary world - one rooted in reality yet slightly askew from it, embracing a kind of deliberate obsolescence (echoed in its use of medieval musical scores), although never from a reactionary stance. In Bel Companho, we find ourselves in Haute-Savoie where a forest is disappearing. This forest - the favourite meeting place for friends to gather (or to meet for the first time, when a third character unsettles the original pair) - endures only as long as their fellowship does. The filmmaker offers a wholly vegetative film, which turns into a small wonder every endeavour to move or to communicate through a place. And as the forest strips bare, a light guides the three figures, who appear like smugglers of modernity.Pierre Guidez
- Interprétation
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Édouard Sulpice, Caroline Vouillon, Simon Bertin Jaulain
- Photographie
- David Ingels, Antoine Pirotte
- Son
- Mathieu Orban, Joseph Squire, Matthieu Deniau
- Montage
- Mona Rossi
- Production
- Andolfi
Contact :
Arnaud Dommerc, Andolfi : production@andolfi.fr