Country: France
Year: 2024
Duration: 19'
In 1865 ravaged Georgia, a Union veteran is desperately looking for a war orphan he promised to adopt.
Biography
film director
Wilhelm Kuhn
(France) is a French filmmaker based between Paris and New York. He graduated from the London Film School in 2015, with his thesis film The Porter Brothers being acquired and broadcast on Amazon Prime. His second film Le Neveu won the Dances with Films’ top prize Industry Choice Award in Los Angeles in 2018, and was shown in multiple festivals including El Gouna, Istanbul International, and Cinemaforum. He’s currently working on a feature documentary about French-occupied colonial Algeria, based on exclusive color footage shot by his great-grandfather in the 1930s.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Porter Brothers (cm, 2015), Le Neveu (cm, 2018), Julius (cm, 2024).
Declaration
film director
“The American Civil War represents the center of gravity in contemporary history: the promise of political equality and racial justice. But it also contained its biggest disappointments. Contrary to what had been promised, white supremacy continued to dominate the modern industrial society that was meant to replace the old colonial world. With Julius, I wanted to depict this turning point through the lives of those who were most impacted: the people who had lived in bondage for generations. Faced with newfound freedom, and forced to fend for themselves, they were confronted with a new question which we still consider today: What does it mean to be free?”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Wilhelm Kuhn. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sheldon Walker. EDITING: Aliénor Duplessis. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Mike Sano. MUSIC: Andrea Boccadoro. SOUND: Guido Schierano, Nathan Robert. CAST: Aaron Kinsley Adetola, Bryan Mittelstadt, Karen L. Stanford, James A. Pierce III, Jason Jamal Ligon, Henry Packer, Cameron Keitt. PRODUCTION: Blair Alexandra Erich, Wilhelm Kuhn.
CONTACT: Wilhelm Kuhn wilhelm@sunhourfilms.com
