Synopsis
Paris. From Charlie Hebdo’s attacks to the presidential elections, a journey into the night with young people who don’t sleep. Their dreams, nightmares, drunkenness, softness, boredom and tears. The parties, coffee, terraces, jobs, the amnesia, their future. 2015, 2016, 2017: our time.
Filmmaker
Matthieu Bareyre
His first short film was a documentary, Nocturnes (2015), and was selected at the Cinéma du Réel and Rencontre européennes du moyen métrage de Brive festivals. Young and Alive is his first feature, on which he’s been working since early 2015. It was presented at Locarno Film Festival where he won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European.
Filmography: L'époque (2018), Nocturnes (curt, 2015)
