2024 - 69th Edition

In His Own Image

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Thierry de Peretti

France

- 2024

Estreno nacional

Antonia was given her first camera on her 14th birthday. Since then, this young photographer has been observing with her own eyes the events of the times she has experienced, from the violence in her native Corsica to the war in the former Yugoslavia. Based on the novel In His Own Image by Jérôme Ferrari, winner of the Goncourt Prize, Thierry de Peretti plunges us into the stormy eighties and nineties in Corsica to follow closely the evolution of the independence movement on the island from the inside and with all the nuances absent from the official French narrative, while maintaining the necessary distance. Antonia adopts the same perspective of progressive disenchantment in her love affair with one of the main militants of the cause, a drama marked by a serene melancholy about the assumption of one's own positions in the face of unacceptable drifts in the immediate environment.

Thierry de Peretti

Actor, film and stage director, born in Ajaccio (Corsica) in 1970. He has directed plays by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Grégory Motton and Don DeLillo. His acting credits include Orso Miret’s ‘Rules of Silence’, Bertrand Bonello’s ‘Saint Laurent’, and Patrice Chéreau’s ‘Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train’. ‘Apaches’, selected at the 2013 Directors’ Fortnight, was his first feature film. ‘A Violent Life’, his second film, was selected at the 2017 Critics’ Week. ‘Fight Youth’, a feature-length documentary, was shown at the 2017 FIDMarseille, and his third feature, ‘Undercover’, was released in 2022 and competed in San Sebastian, wher it won the prize for Best Cinematography. ‘In His Own Image’, his fourth feature, was premiered in the 2024 Directors’ Fortnight.

O.V. in French, Corsican subtitled in English and Spanish

Mon. 21, 19:15

Sala Fundos

Presentation

Q&A

Tue. 22, 21:45

Cines Broadway - Salas 1

Presentation

Q&A

Fri. 25, 12:00

Teatro Zorrilla

In His Own Image ©Elise Pinelli

A SU IMAGEN

Punto de Encuentro 69SEMINCI. Photocall. Patio Herreriano. © SEMINCI – PHOTOGENIC

A SU IMAGEN

Punto de Encuentro 69SEMINCI. Photocall. Patio Herreriano. © SEMINCI – PHOTOGENIC

A SU IMAGEN

Punto de Encuentro 69SEMINCI. Photocall. Patio Herreriano. © SEMINCI – PHOTOGENIC

A SU IMAGEN

Punto de Encuentro 69SEMINCI. Photocall. Patio Herreriano. © SEMINCI – PHOTOGENIC