Coline Confort
Locarno Residency 2023 | Switzerland
Locarno Residency 2023 | Switzerland
Coline Confort is a French writer and director based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied at ECAL and fell into the rabbit hole of historical reenactments while shooting her graduation film Imperial which premiered in Premier Plan Angers and was screened in Locarno Film Festival, Palm Springs Short Fest and Winterthur, where it was awarded Best School Film and nominated Best Graduation Film at the Swiss Film Prize 2022. Since then, she has directed several short films screened in international film festivals and a feature documentary, The Acrobat Life, released in Swiss theaters in 2023. She is writing her first feature-length fiction film, Josie Goes to War, selected for the Locarno Residency and TorinoFilmLab 2024. She has always had a spirit of adventure, which she instills in her stories.
2021 Imperial
2022 10 Missed Calls
2023 Scales Fell from their Eyes
2023 The Acrobat Life
2023 A Neutral Film
Production: Bande à part Films
Dreaming of joining a Napoleonic regiment of historical re-enactment reserved for men, Josie, a modern day girl (20), falls in love with Paul (50), Napoleon Bonaparte impersonator. Josie delves into a role-playing game with him where she begins to lose her grip on reality.
Josie embarks on a journey into this Napoleonic world to understand where her attraction to power and gender roles comes from, and to experience it at its core, confronting her own principles and beliefs about what she wants for her own life.
