Conte sous le solstice
- Direction
- Maruani Landa
- Country
- France
- Format
- Short film
- Type
- Fiction
- Original title
- Conte sous le solstice
- Scenario
- Maruani Landa
Maruani Landa
Filmography
Short-feature « YOLO » – 15’ – 2015 – HDV – France Co-Author/Director. Presented at the Short Film Corner, Cannes 2016. Official selection at the Festival du cinéma francophone d’Albi, 2015 Short-Feature fiction « CIPRIANA » – 21’30 – 2015 – HDV – Mexico. Author/Director. Official Selection Festival Ull-Nu 2015, Official Selection Festival Edimburg (EIFF) 2015, Official Selection Festival IN THE PALACE Bulgaria (ISFF) 2015, Official Selection Festival Internacional de Cine Mexicano (FICM) 2015 Short-Feature fiction « CETTE PEUR EST AFFAMEE » – 5’ – 2012– DV – Mexico. Author/Director – Autoproduction. Finalist at the 2do concurso latinoamericano de Cortometraje Imich 2012 Short-feature documentary « QUIEN ES » – 18’ – 2011 – DV – Mexico. Author/Co Director – Autoproduction. Official Selection Bandit Mages 2011
Note of intent
« Summer solstice » was born of a personal impression, the one of a world that is deteriorating. I got inspired by this unemployed new generation that can’t find their place in a stricter world, without any possible issue. Milla slowly moves towards supernatural, and gets attached to her encounter with a creature, first as a dog and then as a young girl; that will allow her to run away from reality. This creature, real or fantasized, could represent the devil, death, but also a sorcerer.
Synopsis
Milla, a young solitary and disillusioned girl, does temporary jobs and lives at her grandmother’s in a small French village in the South West. One day, a mysterious dog arrives in the village. Assaulted for all sides by everyday gossips, the narrow-minded requirements of a work counsellor, the degrading looks and remarks of the men surrounding her, Milla gets progressively closer and closer from the dog. This one seems to be carefully watching her; and will lead her to definitely leave this world in which she can’t find her place.
Visual concept
We would like to insufflate a solar ambiance to the movie, with a summer suns starting to be overwhelming. South West villages, with their brick walls and endless fields, have a very particular way of structuring and sending back sunrays.
Also, these are transition sites still absorbed by the past that are little by little transformed by modernity. We are seeking for this aspect of the timeless village that will underline the form of a tale, a favourable territory for supernatural.
- Objectives sought in Films in Development
Meet partners that would be able to help producing and diffusing this short-feature.
- Shooting planned date
August 2017
- Planned shooting location
Occitanie Region (Verfeil and Sidobre Forest)
- Project's development phase
In development (scenario rewriting and financing seeking)
- Production
- Bobi Lux
- Producer's biography
Louise Hentgen, after she obtained a Master degree in Cinema Research at Paris 3, then a Professional Master in Documentary at Paris 7, joined Bobi Lux as associate producer in early 2014. She started to produce a documentary, then three medium-length fiction movies. Actually she develops several short-features and two long-features.