COMPETITION

French short films

Programme 2

Bonnarien

Adiel Goliot
2023 - France - 21mn

Screenings : wednesday 24 - 2:00 pm - Centre de congrès - Auditorium - presented and followed by a debate with the film directors wednesday 24 - 8:30 pm - Grand Ecran - La Pommeraye - presented and followed by a debate with the film directors thursday 25 - 10:15 pm - Pathé - 1

Mauricette Nogood works as a docker at the French Guiana port of Degrad des Cannes. The rest of the time, she is a slam poet. She haas always felt insecure about her last name, which was imposed onto her ancestors at the end of slavery. Now she is fighting to change her family name, struggling against the inefficiency of French bureaucracy. It is time for her to announce her new name to her close circle.

Screenwriter, director, and graduate from the European Audiovisual Screenwriting Conservatory, Adiel directed his first short film Bonnarien (Nogood) in 2022. He is also a poet, exploring identity and self-confidence issues with his own aesthetic definition of a musical. During the writing process, he became aware of his transgender identity and went through an uphill medical and administrative battle to transform his gender to be himself. Winner of the French Slam Championship in 2020, and semi-finalist of the Slam World Championship in 2021, he leads now writing and slam workshops in prisons and schools. He is currently developing a new short film about the prison world with Post-genres productions. Bonnarien won the audience award for the short film screenplay readings at Premiers Plans in 2021.

CAST AND CREW

Cast : Miremonde Fleuzin, Vanessa Champlain
Screenplay : Adiel Goliot
Cinematography : Johann Le Ruz
Sound : Tanguy Laillier
Editing : Nathan Jacquard, Jules Jasko
Music : Adiel Goliot, Miremonde Fleuzin, Allan Hu-Ten-Tack, Djaahaya

Production : Post-genres productions