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Mitra
director: Jorge León
83 minutes | BELGium, France
Winter 2012 – Committed against her will to a psychiatric hospital in Tehran, Mitra Kadivar, an Iranian psychoanalyst, starts an e-mail correspondence with Jacques-Alain Miller, founder of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Summer 2017 – an artistic team creates an opera based on these exchanges while delving into the reality of a psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence.
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About
Production: Thank you & Good Night Productions (BE), Films de Force majeure (FR)
Distribution: Shellac films
World sales: CBA – François Rapaille
Release: March 3, 2020
Support
CNC – Fonds d’Aide à l’Innovation Audiovisuelle & DICRéAM, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Fonds Audiovisuel de Flandre (VAF), Tax shelter du Gouvernement fédéral belge, SACEM, GMEM & Ircam-Centre Pompidou
Developped with the support of FID-Lab, Fondation Camargo, & Programme Creative Europe – MEDIA de l’Union Européenne, presented at Venice Gap Financing Market 2017
In coproduction with Le Centre Bruxellois de l’Audiovisuel (CBA), Present Perfect, Sophimages, Magellan Films, la RTBF – Unité de Programmes Documentaires, Lyon Capitale TV, le Fresnoy (Studio National des Arts Contemporains)
With the help of Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles & Service public francophone bruxellois
Team
Writer and director by Jorge León
Story advisor Isabelle Dumont
Director Of Photography Jorge León, Aliocha Van Der Avoort
Lights Thomas Schira
Sound designers Quentin Jacques, Pierre Armand
Original music George Van Dam
Editing Marie-Hélène Mora Producers Geneviève De Bauw, Jean-Laurent Csinidis
Production Manager Jérôme Nunes
Technical sheet
Documentary
Format 16/9
Sound 5.1, stéréo
Length 90 minutes
Release 2018
Colour
Visa number 147.071
FESTIVALS
Free hand to Jérôme Descamps from La Pellicule Ensorcelée, Maison des Metallos (France)
Rencontres Cap aux Bords (France)
Rencontres du film documentaire de Mellionnec (France)
DocumentaMadrid – First jury award “Fugas” (Spain)
Rencontres hivernales du Documentaire (France)
La Compagnie, Lieu de Création (France)
Traces de vies (France)
Brussels Art Film Festival – Young Jury Award (Belgium)
Festival Aux écrans du réel – Sélection Films d’ici et d’ailleurs (France)
Festival actOral – France Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (Belgium)
États Généraux du film documentaire de Lussas – Expérience du Regard (France)
FIDMarseille – International competition – World Premiere – Marseille Espérance Award (France)