EUROPEAN Short Film and Screenplay Festival
Director Statement:
The family is a vast subject that concerns everyone. But who can say, no doubt, that he knows or doesn’t know what the family is? Everyone has a definition and a very personal point of view on this yet universal subject. One can not deny a way of loving or disliking one’s DNA.
I think it’s the role of art, but here, especially the cinema, to be interested in a subject such as this one. To create situations in order to be able to touch something and why not be touched by this thing, with the distance necessary to the intelligence.
When I read “This Child” by Joel Pommerat, I was immediately upset by this scene between a father and his son. Even if the literature of this talented playwright is unquestionably strong, I also think that the resonance was not only intellectual. I am a son, and…
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