COMPETITION

French short films

Programme 1

La Chaleur

Maïa Kerkour
2023 - France - 24mn

Screenings : sunday 21 - 2:00 pm - Centre de congrès - Auditorium - presented and followed by a debate with the film directors monday 22 - 10:00 pm - 400 Coups - 5

In the torpor of summer, Juliette, Ben, Johanna and their children gather at their mother's house to watch over her body. Each of them invents a daily routine for themselves in this moment suspended by sun and death. They sweat. Soon, the body will leave the house.

After two years in a preparatory cinema class in Nantes, Maïa Kerkour, 22, completed several internships with producers and tried her hand at programming. Today, as a Master's student at EHESS, she is working on the practice of the filmed diary and is interested in the different forms of autobiographical writing, as well as the question of intimacy, identity and the emotional ties that run through families. Written in parallel with her studies, La Chaleur is her first short film.

CAST AND CREW

Cast : Margot Alexandre, Victoire Dubois, Benjamin Jaouen
Screenplay : Maïa Kerkour
Cinematography : Juliette Lebagousse
Sound : Salomé Renaud
Editing : Brice Cardinal
Music : Eleonora Busato

Production : Le Grec

French distributor : Le Grec