https://youtu.be/ZWXyMtZRyeM
Original Name: Revenir
English Name: Back Home
Year: 2019
Run Time: 77’
Language: French
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: France
Director: Jessica Palud
Producer: Marielle Duigou, Philippe Lioret
Cast: Niels Schneider, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Patrick d’Assumçao, Hélène Vincent
Screenplay: Jessica Palud, Philippe Lioret, Diastème.
Cinematographer: Victor Seguin
Editor: Thomas Marchand
Sound Designer: Yolande Decarsin, Rym Debbarh-Mounir, Emmanuel Bonnat & Vincent Verdoux
Music Composer: Augustin Charnet, Mathilda Cabezas
Costume Designer: Alexia Crisp-Jones
Production Designer: Esther Mysius
Production Company: Fin Août Productions
World Sales: Pyramide Films
World Sales Phone:+33 01 42 96 02 20
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Festivals:
Venice FF 2019
Francophone FF Namur 2019
Selected Filmography:
2019 Back Home
2017 Marlon (Short)
2016 Dolly (Short)
Director’s Biography:
Jessica Palud was born in 1982 in Paris. She started working on films at young age, first in the management, then the assistant director on films by directors like Sofia Coppola, Eric Lartigau, Philippe Lioret etc. In 2016, she directed a short film, Poupée, then in 2017 Marlon, which was screened in more than 150 festivals around the world (including Toronto and Clermont-Ferrand) and won about 40 international awards. Revenir is her first feature film. She won award for Best Screenplay for the same in Orrizonti section at Vecine FF 2019 .
Synopsis: This is the farm where Thomas was born. This is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is going down the same road, and his father, who has always stood aloof. Thomas gets back to everything he ran away from twelve years ago. Only today, there is Alex, and his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, the boy’s radiant mother.