Feature Film Selection/ Belgium, France, 2022, 68’

Details

• Director: Faustine Cros
• Screenplay: Faustine Cros, Ivo Neefjes
• Editing: Faustine Cros, Cédric Zoenen
• Cinematography: Faustine Cros, Jean-Louis Cros
• Music: Ferdinand Cros
• Producer: Julie Freres, Camille Laemle
• Production: Dérives, Les Films d'Ici
• 2023 UnderhillFest Audience Award
• 2023 Ismaila International Film Festival Best Documentary
• 2022 Leipzig DOK Festival Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Silver Dove, Prize of the Interreligious Jury

Recap

In this documentary, director Faustine Gros focuses on the family films shot by his father. Unlike her father, her mother is the blind spot in these family films, which capture the most beautiful moments of their life. Today, the director revisits these films to tell a different story: the story of a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom...

Director

Faustine Gros

Born in 1988, Faustine Cros graduated from INSAS in Belgium in editing. In her work, she plays with hybrid forms between documentary, auto-fiction, experimental, mixing her own images and family archives. Her graduation film “La Détesteuse” was selected and awarded at many international festivals.

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