COMPETITION

French short films

Programme 1

Python

Hélène Ranawana
2022 - France - 23mn

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

With their mother's return uncertain, Baloo, a young teenager, and his siblings are left to fend for themselves. While they wait to be rehoused following the announcement that the Python-Duvernois housing estate where they live is going to be demolished, Diarra, the eldest in the family, tries to protect them from the truth. But Baloo is not fooled.

Hélène Ranawana was born in Paris in 1995. After studying cinema, she worked as an assistant director and casting assistant on Nora Hamdi's La Maquisarde. She has also worked on the feature film L'angle mort (Blind Spot) by Pierre Trividic and Patrick Mario Bernard, the series Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas and Une année difficile (A Difficult Year) by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. Following the announcement of the demolition of her neighbourhood, Hélène wanted to immortalise its final moments, and through fiction tell of the realities involved in rehousing with the production of her first short film Python.

CAST AND CREW

Cast : Diarra Diagouraga, Ousseyn Armando, Seanley Luc, Emma Kiakanda, Akram Naji, Abdoulaye Camara, Karima Cibert, Inès Anane, Kenza Darbarree, Joseph Savarimouttou
Screenplay : Hélène Ranawana
Cinematography : Justine Bourgade
Sound : Bertrand Larrieu
Editing : Maxence Tasserit, Dimitri Kharitonoff
Music : David Tuil
Cheffe décoratrice : Estelle Brision
Mixing : Matthieu Fraticelli
Étalonnage : Yannig Willmann

Production : LM Filmer, DAD Films