A film by Isabelle Ingold
Documentary / 55 min / 2016
This film traces out the portrait of a motorway rest area located in the countryside in the North of France. It looks like a dream, filled with the whispering thoughts and the lives of those who work here, as well as those who are just passing through. It is also a very concrete place, a perfect spot to observe today’s Europe, the violence carried by the free competition of a single market, the nostalgia carried by uprooted lives, and all the solitude engendered by our modern world.
Written and directed by Isabelle Ingold / Produced by Delphine Schmit – Perspective films
Festivals :
- Premiere at the Brive Film Festival, France
- Winner of l’Acharnière Prize and René Vautier Prize at the L’Acharnière festival in Lille, France
- Rencontres Cinémaginaire, Argelès-sur-mer, France
- Rencontres du documentaire de Mellionnec, France
- Salento International Film Festival, Italy
- Duhok International Film Festival, Iraki Kurdistan
- Images mouvementées Festival (organized by ATTAC), France
- Les Rendez-vous de l’Histoire Festival, Blois, France
- Best Documentary Feature Film at the Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival
- “This human world” International Human Rights Film Festival in Vienna, Austria
- Mention of the jury in the “Ethnographic” section at the IntimaLente ethnographic film festival, in Caserte, Italy
- Best documentary at the Nunes International Festival of Cinema, in Barcelona, Spain
- International Ethnographic Film Festival of Recife, Brazil
- “BudaFest” Budapest Film Festival, Hungary
- Delhi International Film Festival, India
- Ethnografilm festival in Paris
- FIFEQ -International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec, in Québec City (Canada)
- Riga Pasaules Film Festival, Riga (Lettonie)
- Ethnographic Film Festival, Rovinj (Croatie)
- Festival Internazionale del cinema documentario Marcellino de Baggis, à Tarente (Italie)
- ConstruirCine – Labor International Film Festival, Buenos Aires (Argentine) : Second price of the best feature documentary
- Audience howard au StarDoc International Film Festival, Los Angeles
- In competition au Docuxixion (Gijón, Galicie)
- MARFICI, Mar de la Plata(Argentine)
- Doc’s en Goguette, Genouilly (77, France)
- Rencontres Ad Hoc, Mirabel et Blacons (Drôme)
- EPA CINE – Festival Internacional de Cine independiente de El Palomar (Argentine)
- Price of the best foreign short documentary film, à l’Indie Gathering (États-Unis)
- Mediterranean Film Festival (Bosnie-Herzégovine)
- Interférences de Lyon (France)
- Festival International du Cinéma Numérique de Cotonou (Bénin)
- Ciudades Reveladas – Muestra Internacional de Cine y Ciudad (Argentine)
- Byron Bay Film Festival (Australie)
- Exile Film Festival (Suède)
- Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest (Grèce)
- Madurai Film Festival, à Madurai (Inde)
- German International Ethnographic Film Festival (Allemagne)
- Cabo Verde International Film Festival – CVIFF (Cap Vert)
- Rencontres du CCPPO, Bezançon (France)
- Rencontres Cinécroque, Paris (France)
- Rencontres d’ATTAC au café de la Commune d’Aligre, Paris (France)
- Festival Toi, Moi & co, Paris (France)
- Festival du SIEF, Göttingen (Allemagne)
- Festival Bobines Rebelles (France)
- Festival International de Films Anthropologique de Riga (Lettonie)
- Rencontres de Laignes (France)
- Durban International Film Festival (Afrique du Sud)
- Mois du Documentaire, Verneuil-sur-Avre (France)
- Festival Night of the Militant Film, Lyon (France)
- Construir Cine – International Labor Film Festival, Buenos Aires (Argentine)
- Finnish Anthropological Society Conference (Finlande)
- LabexWeek Futurs Urbains
- Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival (Arménie)
- Semana Internacional de Cine de Autor de Lugo (Espagne)
- International Ethno Film Festival The Heart of Slavonia
Image Vivianne Perelmuter et Isabelle Ingold / Sound Antoine Corbin et Benjamin Bober / Editor Bruno Barbay et François Sculier / Music Romain Kronenberg – Patrick Lerchmüeller & Nicolas Puaux / Sound editor Jocelyn Robert / Sound editor’s assistant Juliette Heintz-Bouilloux / Colour grading Nicolas Straseele / Sound mix Simon Lebel / Special effects Christine Laurain / Translation Engin Aycicek, Joanna Grabek, Rina Grasset, Simina Ghit, Antoaneta Karabov, Olena Osypova, Sijia Pan, Elena Ramkina / Production assistants Yasmina Tamer et Alexy Grzelak / Production administration Anne Raymond
Technical means France Télévisions Direction des opérations Filière Production / Post-production supervisor Virginie Maillet assisted by Juliette Pierens
Co-production with France 3 et France 3 Picardie – Regional representative Didier Cagny – Broadcasting administration Max Vanacker assisted by Catherine Maton – Documentary Unit Clémence Coppey – Programs advisor Florence Jammot.
With the support of the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’image animée (COSIP), the Picardie Region and the SCAM (Brouillon d’un rêve).
