PENELOPE MY LOVE to have World Premiere at FID Marseille 2021

Penelope My Love and Looking For Horses Premiering at FID Marseille

It’s a pleasure to announce that the latest addition to our catalogue – PENELOPE MY LOVE by Claire Doyon – is celebrating its World Premiere at the 32nd edition of the International Film Festival Marseille on Wed, July 21st, at 16:30, competing in the French Competition.

Stills from PENELOPE MY LOVE by Claire Doyon

For 18 years, director Claire Doyon has been filming Pénélope, her daughter with autism. Comprised out of DV tapes, Super 8 reels and HD archives, PENELOPE MY LOVE shows the relationship between mother and daughter through different stages – the shock of the diagnosis, the fight against it, the resolve, the acceptance and discovery of a different mode of existence.

PENELOPE MY LOVE is produced by Carole Chassaing of Paris-based Tamara Films and co-produced by Thomas Carillon of Micro Climat Studios.

Claire Doyon’s filmography includes films Les Lionceaux, Le vent souffle où il veut, Kataï, Les Allées sombres, Arsenic, Chrishna/Ombwiri, selected at international festivals such as the Locarno International Film Festival, The Venice Mostra, the Turin Film Festival, the Marseille International Film Festival, the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Côté Court in Pantin, and for which she won prizes. She directed Pénélope, a film about a journey with her daughter with autism to the borders of Mongolia, which won the Renaud Victor Prize at the FID in Marseille.

Still from LOOKING FOR HORSES by Stefan Pavlović

Nominated for the Doc Alliance 2021 Awards – Stefan Pavlović’s LOOKING FOR HORSES – is premiering in France at FID in the Other Gems section on Wednesday, July 21st, 10:00.