Sinopsis
Fiction: in 1963 France, Anne, a bright young student with a promising future, discovers that she is pregnant. Overnight she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape from the suffocating restrictions of her environment cut short. As her final exams approach and her social life begins to fade, Anne's pregnancy progresses, forcing her to confront the shame and pain of an abortion, even if she must risk prison to do so.
Audrey Diwan is a French film director of Lebanese origin. She became a screenwriter after studying journalism and political science. She published her first novel in 2008. She started out in film as a co-writer on a series of thrillers including Paris Under Watch, The Connection and Bac.
In 2021 she presented her second solo feature film ‘Happening’. It is the adaptation of a 2019 novel written by the respected French writer Annie Ernaux and recounts the author's own struggle to have an abortion when she was a student in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalized in France in 1975.
In cooperation with Caramel Films.
Saturday, November 6th, 2021. 8 pm
Palacio de la prensa. Invitation only
Festival Closing
Year of Production: 2021
Running Time: 100’
Country: France
Language: French. Original version with Spanish subtitles
Director: Audrey Diwan
Cast: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet-Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquero, Louise Chevillotte, Pio Marmaï, Sandrine Bonnaire, Leonor Oberson, Anna Mouglalis,Cyril Metzger, Éric Verdin, Alice De Lencquesaing, Madeleine Baudot, Fabrizio Rongione , Isabelle Mazin, Julien Frison, Edouard Sulpice, Leïla Muse, François Loriquet, Louis Bédot, Emeline Weickmans, Gabriel Washer and Lomane De Dietrich
Producers: Édouard Weil and Alice Girard
Production Companies: France 3 Cinéma, Rectangle Productions and Srab Films
Distribution: Caramel Films
International Sales: Wild Bunch International
Main Festivals and Awards: Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion for Best Film and FIPRESCI Award.
