World Cinema
Girl For A Day / Un Jour Fille
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 13th December
- 10.00 am
- Kalabhavan
Screening 2
- 15th December
- 6.00 pm
- audi 4
Screening 3
- 18th December
- 8.45 pm
- new 1
Director's bio
Jean-Claude Monod
At the age of 15, Jean-Claude MONOD wrote his 1st feature film script, les Djinns, selected for the Final of the Victor Hugo Competition (with Philippe Le Guay and Éric Barbier), which allows him to make an excerpt (9mn, 35mm). After graduating from the École Normale Supérieure, he then branched off into studies in philosophy that led him to the CNRS, where he obtained the medal bronze medal in 2013. At the same time, after having been 3rd assistant director on Safi FAYE's feature film, Mossane (1996), selected for the Directors' Fortnight directors at Cannes, he directed three short films: Double (2000), with Nathalie BOUTEFEU, Congress, with Philippe MORIER-GENOUD and Scali DELPEYRAT (2004), based on Vétérinaires, by Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, and The Zoographer (2006), with François CHATTOT, Michèle MORETTI and Eric BERGER, broadcast on France 3, TPS, in various festivals ... He founded the production company Les Films du Possible, and co-directed with the writer Jean-Christophe VALTAT, the medium-length film Augustine (35
Synopsis
18th century. Anne, grown up, has to “change her clothes” because of her attraction to women. Now a man, he marries and has a great love affair with his new wife until his past catches up with him. The shocking true story of Anne Grandjean, born intersex, and their resounding trial, which still questions all our certainties today.
Details of Cast
Marie Toscan du Plantier, Yannick Renier, Isild Le Besco, Solon Hidiroglou, André Marcon
Details of Crew
DoP Baptiste Chesnais Editor Joëlle Hache Music Karol Beffa Sound Design Xavier Dreyfuss
Producer Details
Claire Dornoy, Richard Copans, Julien Russo, Gilles Commaille
Writer Details
Jean-Claude Monod
Stills
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