Synopsis
An improbable, screwball and slapstick police procedural focusing on bizarre crimes on the outskirts of a small Channel Town in the Boulonnais that has fallen prey to evil, and to an band of young scoundrels led by Li’l Quinquin and his beloved Eve.
*Catalan première
Filmmaker
Bruno Dumont
His films border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His first feature film La vie de Jésus was selected at Directors’ Fortnight. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont’s films have won the Grand Prix award: both L’Humanité and Flanders. Dumont’s Hadewijch won the 2009 FIPRESCI Prize at the Toronto Film Festival. Camille Claudel 1915 screened in Competition in Berlin. P’tit Quinquin world premiered in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs’ Special Screenings, and The Empire, won a Silver Bear in Berlin.
Filmography: The Empire (2024, D'A 2025), On a Half Clear Morning (2021, D'A 2022), Joan of Arc (2019), Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018, D'A 2019), Jeannette, the childhood of Joan of Arc (2017), Slack Bay (2016), P'tit Quinquin (2014, D'A 2015), Camille Claudel 1915 (2013), Outside Satan (2011, D'A 2012), Hadewijch (2009), Flandres (2006), Twentynine Palms (2003), Humanité (1999), Life of Jesus (1997)
