Djamila wants to start taking the Pill because things with her boyfriend are getting serious. Zoe's mother gives her condoms but calls her a whore. Nedjma hides her pills outside, because her mother searches her bag. Helen thinks she's too fertile. Clémence is afraid. Adeline wants to keep it, Margot too. Maria Angela wants to find out who got her pregnant. Ana Marie has chosen love and liberty. Anne, Denise, Marta, Yasmine, Milena are counselors who receive and listen to all these women wonder how sexual freedom is possible. Here, everyone laughs and cries and is overwhelmed. They dance, smoke on the balcony. They come incognito to recount their story, be it ordinary or incredible.
Screenplay: Claire Simon, Natalia Rodríguez, Nadège Trebal
Cinematography: Claire Simon, Philippe Van Leeuw
Editing: Julien Lacheray
Music: Arthur Simon
Sound: Olivier Hespel, Frédéric Fichefet, Dominique Vieil
Cast: Anne Alvaro, Nathalie Baye, Michel Boujenah, Rachida Brakni, Isabelle Carré, Lolita Chammah, Béatrice Dalle, Nicole Garcia, Marie Laforêt, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Emmanuel Mouret
Prizes and selections: Festival de Cannes 2008 (Director’s Fortnight SCAD Award), Festival dei Popoli Firenze 2008, Seattle International Film Festival 2009 (Official Selection), Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2009
Production:
Les Films d’Ici
(Paris, T +33 144522323; F +33 144522324; courrier@lesfilmsdici.fr; www.lesfilmsdici.fr)
Co-Production:
Ciné@
(Paris, T +33 142963060; F +33 143591382; s.boulet@cine-at.com)
La Parti Production
(Bruxelles, T +32 (0)25346808; F +32 (0)25347818; info@laparti.com; www.laparti.com)
Distribution:
Films Boutique-Charlotte Renaut
(Berlin, T +49 3069537850; charlotte@filmsboutique.com; www.filmsboutique.com)
Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Cinema) - 10 Nov, 20.30