(2023, France, Belgium, 104')
They do their best to keep up appearances, and they planned for every detail. When the Férals move to a small, placid French town, they set out to look like an amiable, wholesome family. Philémon Féral is a shy, sweet teenager who hides his strange disease with the help of his family. When Philémon meets his neighbour Camila, his desires get mixed up with his thirst for blood, which he thought he could contain. Keeping up appearances now seems impossible
Freelance French journalist and foreign news correspondent Céline Rouzet debuted in film in the double role of director and screenwriter (the latter together with William Martin). Her first radio documentary, Le Ciel Rouge de Tabubil (lit. ‘The Red Sky of Tabubil’) is about an Australian mining city that had been set up in a sacred forest in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s, and has been entered at the New York Festival in 2011. Her second radio documentary, Ladakh, la Metamorphose, is about modernity in Indian Himalaya, and has been broadcast on national radio and at the Mellionnec Film Festival in 2012. In 2020, Rouzet made the poignant and shocking 2020 documentary 140 km à l’ouest du paradis (lit. ‘140 kilometres east of Paradise’) on the ouster of the Huli people in Papua New Guinea.
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