Emmanuel Marre scoops an award at the Locarno Festival for D’un château l’autre
D’un château l’autre (Castle to Castle), a new short film by Emmanuel Marre, was screened in the Pardi di domani section at the 71st Locarno Festival, scooping a Pardino d’oro for the Best International Short Film at the award ceremony on Saturday evening. The film has also been nominated for the European Film Awards, which will take place later in the year.
The short, which had its global premiere at the festival, was one of 29
international films competing for the award.
Spring 2017, in between the two rounds of the French presidential election.
Pierre, a 25-year-old scholarship holder studying in a big Parisian school,
lives with 75-year-old Francine, who is disabled and wheelchair-bound.
Politically and socially opposed, they are perplexed and disoriented as they
witness the unfolding electoral spectacle. While waiting for the results, they
engage with each other, as Pierre tries to take care of Francine’s body and she
attempts to heal his voiceless resentment. D’un
château l’autre is produced by Michigan Films and Kidam. Emmanuel Marre
likes forests, lumberjacking, boxing, poetry and architecture. He also worked
as a receptionist in a social housing organisation, as a waiter, and as a life
model for an academy. Disaffected with his literature studies in Paris, he
escaped to Belgium, where he studied at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion
(IAD). He splits his time between documentaries (Chaumière, 2013) and drama (La
vie qui va avec, 2008; Le petit
chevalier, 2010; Le désarroi du flic
socialiste, 2014; Le
film de l’été, 2016).
Founded in 1946, the Locarno Festival is one of the world’s longest-running
film festivals. From the outset, the festival has sought to uncover new trends
and has a track record of unearthing young film-makers who have gone on to
become the leading lights of their generations.
Pardi di domani section is where
up-and-coming talent shines, screening short and medium-length films by young
film-makers and students who have yet to try their hand at the feature-length
format. The section is divided into two competitions – one for Swiss works and
the other for international films.
