After five years of studying in Paris, Arash is fed up with France. Haunted by feelings of unhappiness and despair, the sensitive Iranian student firmly believes that the French are a breed of their own. His friends Hossein and Ashkan persuade him to join them on one last trip, hoping to change his mind.
The dissimilar trio hits the road, heading to the sun-kissed South of France with a jam-packed car. Sleeping on campsites, drinking beer at street festivals and frolicking in the fresh sea air they meet the two musicians Charlotte and Michèle and Arash is left to decide whether he really wants to return to Iran after all…
BEFORE SUMMER ENDS presents itself as a documentary that continually seeks to play with the boundaries of fiction.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
2017 World Premiere: Cannes (ACID)
2017 International Premiere: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2017 International Film Festival Palić
2017 Sofilm Summercamp Bordeaux Festival Les Tropicales
2017 Festival international du film de La Rochelle
2017 FIFF Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur
2017 Zurich Film Festival ZFF
2017 BFI London Film Festival
2017 FNC Montréal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
2017 Chicago International Film Festival
2017 Sao Paolo, 41a Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paolo, New Filmmakers Competition
2017 Sevilla, 14° Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo, Competition
2018 New York, Lincoln Center, Les Rendez-Vous du cinéma français
2018 Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Varsovie
2018 Les Mercredis du cinéma (28.11.18), Plan-les-Ouates
AWARDS
- Emerging Swiss Talent Award Zurich FF 2017
- Jury Special Mention BFILondon 2017
- Swiss Cinema Best Documentary Film Award Nominee
- The Best FilmCompetition Fiction/Non-fiction Millenium Docs Against Gravity,
Special Mention Olhares do Mediterraneo Festival
PRESS
Reviews: Hollywood Reporter, Variety, The New Yorker, Telerama, Le Monde, Liberation, Les InRocks, Cineuropa, One Room With a View
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY
Born in 1982 in Geneva, Maryam Goormaghtigh studied filmmaking at INSAS in Brussels, after studying Musicology and History and Aesthetics of Cinema in Lausanne. After directing a series of short and medium length films, among them Bibeleskaes, co-directed with Blaise Harrison and Le fantôme de Jenny M (55’), selected at Vision du Réel Festival in Nyon, Maryam Goormaghitgh collaborated on the Arte documentary review CUT UP, directing several short films as well as the web documentary Code Barre (awarded a Gold Fipa at Biarritz 2012̀). Before Summer Ends is her first feature-length film, a documentary-comedy which blurs the definitions of film genres.
Filmography
2017 Avant la fin de l’été
2010 Heart of Qin in Hong Kong
2009 Le fantôme de Jenny M
2006 Bibeleskaes
2005 Lonesome Cowboys
2005 Les tendres plaintes
2003 UP TO HK
CONTACT
14 rue du Repos, 75020 Paris
+33 6 87 84 29 08
maryamgoorma@gmail.com
CREDITS
Directed by Maryam Goormaghtigh
Collaborative writing Christian Tarabini
Camera Maryam Goormaghtigh
Assistant Director Valérianne Poidevin
Music Marc Siffert
Editing Gwénola Héaulme
Sound Design Olivier Touche
Re-recording Dominique Gaborieau
Color Grading Isabelle Julien
Post Production Supervisor Pierre Huot
Rushes Synchronization Mario Valero
Color Grading studio Ike No Koi
Sound Design studio La Petit Cour
Re-recording studio Poly-son Post Production
Production Intermezzo Films, 4 A 4 Productions
Intermezzo Films: Luc Peter, Anne Deluz
4 A 4 Productions: Andrea Queralt, David Mathieu-Mahias, Mani Mortazavi
In co-production with RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Sunny Independent Pictures, Salvajes Productions
Sunny Independent Pictures: Afshin Salamian
Salvajes Productions: Maryam Goormaghtigh
Producers: Luc Peter, Andrea Queralt
Production Manager: Catherine Muller
Production Assistants: Patricia Candido Trinca, Elodie Bieri
Production Accountant Annick Kammacher
PRODUCER’S BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY
Luc Peter, Born in 1963. Studied Political Science at the Geneva University (Bachelor in 1986 and Master in 1989). Cinema studies at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art in Lausanne (1994). Directed numerous documentary features, amongst which CHRISTIAN MARCLAY (2000), LA RIBOT DISTINGUIDA (2004), MAGIC RADIO (2007), BROKEN LAND (2014), DREAMERS (2021) as well as documentaries for TV shows. Since 2001, producer at Intermezzo Films.
PRODUCER:
Luc Peter, Anne Deluz
luc@intermezzofilms.ch
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Intermezzo Films
28 rue de Bâle 1201 Genève / 022 741 47 47 / info@intermezzofilms.ch
http://intermezzofilms.ch/
Intermezzo Films was founded in 1993 to produce feature and documentary films in a spirit of freedom and artistic standards, to foster innovative and creative movies. The company is committed to be an independent entity, close to the films it produces.With more than 50 films, Intermezzo Films is today one of the leading production companies in French-speaking Switzerland.
CO-PRODUCTION
4 A 4 PRODUCTIONS
10B Rue Bisson, 75020 Paris / +33 1 42 25 30 27 infos@4a4productions.fr
Maryam Goormaghtigh
maryamgoorma@gmail.com
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