ACADEMY SPIRITS

FATIMA KACI | LIAS SALLUSTIO | ELISE LEVY | HÉLÈNE ROSSELET-RUIZ | | | 96min |
LA VOIX DES AUTRES|LES PUNAISES|MINUIT SUR MSN|PAS L'COEUR ASSEZ GRAND

Synopsis

LA VOIX DES AUTRES

Rim is a Tunisian interpreter working in France on asylum procedures. Every day, she translates the stories of exiled men and women, whose voices raise questions about her own history.

LES PUNAISES

Berlioz is over-graduated and cannot find a job. In order to keep his rights to unemployment insurance, he accepts a “high responsibility” job offer which consists of removing all the thumbtacks from the wall of an empty building …

MINUIT SUR MSN

2008, beginning of summer, end of school. At night, Laure secretly talks to Alix on MSN. But during the day, in their girls’ school, she avoids her – like everyone else. When Laure invites Alix to her house, something changes between them.

PAS L’COEUR ASSEZ GRAND

Tom is a 10-year-old boy who lives with his family in a small shack in the Paris suburbs. His dog Django is his best friend, a beacon of affection in a house that often lacks it. When his parents separate violently, Django disappears. Tom sets out to find him.


导演

FATIMA KACI

Fatima Kaci is a french screenwriter and director graduated from La Fémis. She wrote and directed the short documentary The Cemetery and the short Spare Parts.Her new short, The Voice of others produced in 2023, was selected at the Cannes International Film Festival (La Cinef). She received the Lights on Women Award at Cannes by Kate Winslet, president of the jury. She is currently working on her first feature film.

导演

LIAS SALLUSTIO

Lisa Sallustio studied political science in Brussels at the age of 18 before entering INSAS in theatre staging in 2011. In September 2016, she integrated the filmmaking department at La Fémis. Lisa wrote theatrical forms and directed short films and documentaries. The last one, produced in Belgium by Dérives Asbl, has been released in 2020.

导演

ELISE LEVY

Elyse Levy graduated from Sciences Po Paris in 2019 before joining the screenplay section of La Fémis. There she developed feature films and co-wrote several short films, including RÊVES PARTIS, available on Arte in March 2023. MINUIT SUR MSN is her first film as a writer-director.

导演

HÉLÈNE ROSSELET-RUIZ

An actress for both theater and cinema, Hélène started writing in 2015, and directed SENSIBILITÉS (finalist for the SCAM 2019 Best institutional film award), LES HÉRITIÈRES (co-directed with her sister Marie) and IBIZA. She has been a student at La Fémis since 2018.