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Les Paradis de Diane

Carmen JAQUIER, Jan GASSMANN

Switzerland | V.O. French | 2024 | 97 min | DCP | color | Fiction | Canadian Premiere

On the night of the birth of her first child, Diane runs away from the maternity ward. She could have been part of this clan: maternal, instinctive, powerful, but her ideals collapse. She begins a journey of inner and outer transformation.

Distribution
Director Carmen JAQUIER, Jan GASSMANN
Music Marcel Vaid
Cinematographer Thomas Szczepanski
Screenplay Carmen JAQUIER, Jan Gassmann
Cast Dorothée De Koon, Aurore Clément, Roland Bonjour, Omar Ayuso, Duncan Airlie James, Stéphanie Lagarde
Production 2:1 FILM

Biographie

Carmen JAQUIER

Carmen Jaquier, born in Geneva, initially learned graphic design before making her first short films as a self-taught filmmaker. She later joined the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). Her graduation film, Le Tombeau des filles, received the Pardino d’argento at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011. Her films La Rivière sous la langue and Heimatland (a collective feature film) were selected for the Locarno Film Festival in 2015. Her first feature film, Thunder released in 2022, has been showcased at various festivals (Toronto, San Sebastian, Busan, Rome) and has received numerous awards, including Best Director at the Marrakech Film Festival. It was chosen to represent Switzerland at the Oscars.

Biographie

Jan GASSMANN

Jan Gassmann is a director working on the borderline between fiction and documentary filmmaking. His first feature film, Chrigu, was presented at the 57th Berlinale and was successful in theaters. Jan Gassmann then directed his first fictional feature film, Off Beat, selected for the Panorama section of the 60th Berlinale, and co-directed the documentary Karma Shadub, winner of the International Jury Prize at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon. In 2016, his film Europe, she loves, about four couples on the outskirts of Europe, was chosen as the opening film of the Panorama Dokumente at the Berlinale. In 2022, Gassmann directed 99 Moons, produced by Zodiac Pictures.