Country: France
Year: 2026
Duration: 76'
Julie and Christel are in love and want to have a child. When it comes to choosing a donor, Julie looks to her past: what if one of her former partners were to step forward? That evening, she gathers around the same table her new partner, the two men she has been involved with, and her twenty-year-old daughter, to announce her new life and pose a question destined to upset the balance of things. Over the course of a single evening, with no ellipses and no possibility of escape, each of them will have to redefine their place within a family taking shape before our eyes.
Biography
film director
Maurice Hermet
(France) gained his experience in filmmaking behind the scenes, working as an assistant director and technical consultant alongside filmmakers with very different sensibilities, including Mathieu Kassovitz, Patrice Leconte, Stéphane Brizé, Géraldine Nakache and Hervé Mimran, Audrey Dana and Thomas Gilou. Through this work, he developed an in-depth understanding of the filmmaking process, from the film set to storytelling, and came to believe that the most authentic stories are those we carry within us for a long time before turning them into films. In 2018, he made his directorial debut with the short film Le Trait, which won the Grand Prix at the Cognac Festival. In 2026, he made his first feature film, Instinct de famille.
FILMOGRAFIA
Le Trait (cm, 2018), Instinct de Famille (2026).
Declaration
film director
“What is a family? The one we choose, the one we lose, the one we invent over the course of a chaotic night around a table? Instinct de famille grew out of an idea I had been nurturing for years: to shoot in real time, in a single location, with six characters, bringing different generations face to face with a controversial subject. I wanted to create a cinematic device that would not lie: a single take, because life knows no cuts. Real time, because what is said one evening remains said forever. The camera is not an instrument of control, but a witness. It accompanies the characters without ever abandoning them, as we do the people we love, even when it hurts. This is a cinema of instinct, in which we put ourselves at risk in order to find, deep within ourselves, the resources we need to create, imagine and set our emotions free.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Maurice Hermet. SCREENPLAY: Ludivine Gretere, Maurice Hermet. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yannick Ressigeac. EDITING: Vincent Zuffranieri. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Sarah Beaupoux. CAST: Sarah Bramms, Éric Caravaca, Alice Dufour, Charlotte Gabris, Jérémy Lopez, Josiane Stoléru. PRODUCTION: Roméo Cirone, Jean-Michel Lorenzi per Romeo Drive Productions. COPRODUCTION: Maurice Hermet, Alain Mougenot per Good Game Productions. CONTACT: The Right Ones (Ariane Buhl) - ariane.buhl@therightones.eu
