Synopsis
Jeanne is seven years old and lives alone with her mother, "the village idiot". For the first time she's going to school because the teacher wants too saver her... The child who is torn between learning without love or love without learning, is falling ill and everything turns upside down.
Credits
Director (1)
Actresses (3)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Occo Films
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producer : Francis Henriot
- Screenwriter : Francis Henriot
- Director of Photography : Aldo Piscina
- Music Composer : Arvo Pärt
- Editor : Sophie Barbier
- Sound Recordist : Frédéric Bures
- Production Designer : Irène Galitzine
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Themes : Childhood, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2005
- Runtime : 16 min 30 seconds
- Visa number : 112.413
- Visa issue date : 29/12/2005
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)