First feature film for actor Stéphane Freiss who went behind the camera. 10 years of work, reflection and writing that led him to this first achievement. In “You will choose your life”, he takes us to meet an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains who go each year to a farm in southern Italy for a brief stay in order to accomplish a sacred mission: the harvest of citrons (a citrus fruit that looks like a large lemon). Esther, the rabbi’s daughter, in full questioning of the constraints imposed by her religion, meets Elio, the owner of the farm…
Before the screening of his film in competition, Stéphane Freiss visited the festival’s TV set.
Stéphane Freiss presents his first film “You will choose your life” at the Saint-Jean-de-Luz Film Festival
