Short Films Competition

VIRVATULI - "La Bottée"

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What happens to those who dare to follow a virvatuli ? Bloody neons, drifting blue snow. Clara, you carry the name of a heroine from Tchaikovsky — and noticing, Zadig was spellbound. To the rhythm of your hips, hope shatters, then blooms anew. Welcome to the whirlwind of the world, where silences echo like a quiet rhapsody. This short-movie traces those who keep moving forward, bearing the secret dream of finding themselves before the dawn. An urban, intimate and sensory fable, of the sublime within chaos, and the rage to live, propelled by passion and by poetry.

Mädelenn L.

biography

At twelve, I walked through a screen. It was then I understood that cinema gives life to the ineffable, to feelings that surpass us and sometimes miraculously unite us. “Who holds the saltshaker of our lives?” I think salt cannot be explained; it can only be tasted. And that, I reckon, is poetry.

Credits
  • Directing : Mädelenn L.
  • Script : Mädelenn L.
  • Casting : Jeanne Rousseaux, Adib Cheikhi, Gérard Touratier, Monika Krol, Nils Dupuy-Hirvensalo
  • Photography : Just-A. Meissonnier
  • Sound : Paul-Emile Thiou / Mateo Gondat
  • Editing : Romain Senave / Mädelenn L.
  • Music : Poumtica / Jérémy Bischoff
  • Decoration : Nils Dupuy-Hirvensalo
  • Costumes : Mädelenn L. / Elena Castello
  • Makeup & hairdressing : Daniel Gonzalez Vives
  • Production : Lucie Boulangé / Nils Dupuy-Hirvensalo
  • Directing assistant : Thibault Servière
  • VFX : /
  • Calibration : Marine Lepoutre
  • Sound mixing : Mädelenn L.

Chargé de production : Nils Dupuy-Hirvensalo Scripte : Théophile Clauzon / Julia Librati 1ère assistante caméra : Julie Rabreau 2nde assistante caméra : Laura Béjean Coordinatrice d'intimité : Marie Adam Secrétaire de production : Pablo Ontoria Chef électricien : Léo Merchadou Électricienne : Solenn Colbatz Chef machiniste : Titouan Thomas Machiniste : Léandre Thomas Régisseur : Mathieu Launay Régisseur adjoint : Julien Marichaud Transpagroup, GLOBAL Supply, Les frères Spirale, Inspire, le Gotah, ma famille et amis, les donateurs, et toute personne ayant concouru à la réalisation de ce film.

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