Dominique Landron met a president of the jury happy to discover films, during the festival le cinema continues for this director:
“I am delighted to chair the Critics’ Week jury first because it is Ava Cahen’s first selection that I find wonderful and I am in the process of discovering the films. I don’t have the right to talk about films, but discovering first films is a privilege. There is a selection of seven feature films. So it’s the cinema of tomorrow and I’m privileged to discover these films and watch them carefully. »
- – The president has work all week and the filmmaker is what she thinks of a future feature film?
” I am editing at the moment, I shouldn’t be there in reality, but there you go, you can’t refuse, I’m right in the middle of editing an upcoming film. It’s a film about a woman who has four daughters who live in Tunisia. _It is a family that has experienced a lot of trauma in a very very violent environment and the two eldest left to join Daesh_. To tell this story which has already taken place in the past, I bring back actresses and it is the real characters who direct the actresses in the film. It is this device of dialogue between actresses and real characters to reconstruct their memories..
Find the full interview in the next issue of Kantara.