Country: France
Year: 2007
Duration: 80'


The starting point of each part of the film is a childhood story, taken from the biography of a great filmmaker, freely interpreted by a young French director.

“In everyone’s childhood, there is a turning point, a singular event that plays an essential role in the development of the adult one has become. Essential, for it allows the child to cross a threshold, to state his personality in relation to his parents, his friends, in one word, to ‘grow up.’ Essential also, because this event will have been sufficiently pregnant to permanently influence the creative universe of this future adult.” (Laurence Darthos)

Biography

film director

Yann Le Gal

FILMOGRAFIA

Le Griselet (cm, 1992), Enfances (ep. 1, cm, 2007).

Islid Le Besco

(Parigi/Paris, 1982)

FILMOGRAFIA

T’es ou ? (cm, 2001), Demi-tarif
(2003), Enfances (ep. 2, cm, 2007).

Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige

(Beirut, Lebanon, 1969) directed films presented and awarded at various international film festivals. Their works have been exhibited in galleries and museums. With the latest feature Memory Box (2021) they participated in competition at the Berlinale, while with their debut film A Perfect Day (2005) they won the Fipresci award in Locarno and with the subsequent Je veux voir (2008) they participated at the Certain Regard section in Cannes. Their documentary The Lebanese Rocket Society: The Strange Tale of The Lebanese Space Race (2012) won first prize at the Doha Tribeca Festival. Several retrospectives of their films have been presented in institutions such as Cinematek in Brussels, the Lincoln Center, the MoMA and the Flaherty Seminar in New York, the Tate Modern in London, Paris Cinéma, the Institut Français and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the Harvard Film Archive, the Locarno, Nyon and Gijon festivals, while in 2017 their installation On Unconformities was awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize. Their artworks are part of major private and public collections including British Museum, Center Pompidou, Fond national d'art contemporain, MCA Chicago, Solomon R. Guggenheim and Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Hadjithomas and Joreige are the authors of numerous publications namely The Rumors of The World: Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet (2015) e Two Suns in a Sunset (2016). They are often invited as university lecturers in Lebanon and Europe. Both artists are co-founders of the production company Abbout Productions with Georges Schoucair, as well as executive members of Metropolis Art Cinema and the Cinemathèque in Beirut.

FILMOGRAFIA

Al Bayt al Zaher (Around the Pink House, doc, 1999), Khiam (doc, mm, 2000), Barmeh (Rounds, cm, 2001), Al Film Al Mafkoud (The Lost Film, doc, mm, 2003), Ramad (Ashes, cm, 2003), Yawmoun akhar (A Perfect Day, 2005), Open the Door, Please (ep. del film Enfances, cm, 2006), Khiam 2000-2007 (doc, 2008), Je veux voir (2008), The Lebanese Rocket Society, The Strange Tale of the Lebanese Space Race (doc, 2012), Ismyrna (doc, mm, 2016), Memory Box (2021).

Khalil Joreige

(Beirut, Libano/Lebanon, 1969)

FILMOGRAFIA


Al Bayt Al Zaher (1999), Khiam (mm, doc., 2000), El Film El Makfoud (mm, doc., 2003), Ramad (cm, 2003), A Perfect Day (2005), Enfances (ep. 3, cm, 2007). 

Corinne Garfin

(1973)

FILMOGRAFIA

Les Vagabonds (cm, 1996), Anissa (cm, 1998), Bakary et les autres (cm, doc., 2000), L’Ordre vert (mm, doc., 2002), La Collection de Judicaël (cm, 2003), Seul (cm, 2005), Enfances (ep. 5, cm, 2007).

Ismael Ferroukhi

(Kenitra, Marocco/Morocco, 1962)

FILMOGRAFIA

L’Expose (cm, 1993), L’Inconnu (mm, 1996), Un Été aux hirondelles (TV, 1997), Le P’tit ben (TV, 1999), Le Grand voyage (2004), Enfances (ep. 4, cm, 2007).

Safi Nebbou

(1968)

FILMOGRAFIA

Bertzea (cm, 2002), Lepokoa (cm, 2003), Le Cou de la girafe (2004), Enfances (ep. 6, cm, 2007).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director Yann Le Gal, Isild Le Besco, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Ismaël Ferroukhi, Corinne Garfin, Safy Nebbou                                      soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Yann Le Gal
fotografia/director of photography Toni Malamatenios, Jowan Le Besco, Benoit Chamaillard, Lubomir Bakchev, Stéphane Patti, Eric Guichard
scenografia/set design Riton Dupire Clément, Laurence Vendroux, Catherine Mananes, Julien Tesseraud, Marie Barateau, Laurent Cavero, Nayra Meliava, Cyril Gomez-Matthieu
costumi/costume design Agnès Noden, Florence Sadaune, Marie Berroyer, Fabienne Katany
montaggio/film editor Tina Baz Le Gal, Julia Gregory, Liza Ignazi, Bernard Sasia
musica/music Régis Ramadour, Dana Farzanhepour, Lionel Garbarini, Thomas Dautriche, Antoine Ouvrier
suono/sound Olivier Goinard, Matthieu Deniau, Stéphane de Rocquigny, Fabrice Conesa, Anne Le Campion
interpreti/cast Virgil Leclaire, Brandon Daraï, Maxime Juravliov, Eliott Margue, Grégoire Azouvy, Max Renaudin
produttore/producer Laurence Darthos
produzione/production Tara Films
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales UMedia
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