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FARIO

Concorso Cineasti del Presente

France · 2024 · DCP 2K · Color · 90' · o.v. French / German

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Léo, a young engineer, returns to his homeland to sell his late father’s homeland to a rare-earth metal drilling company. But strange events lead him to believe that the mining site is contaminating the river. Léo starts a hallucinatory investigation that forces him to deal with his grief.
I wanted to address the topic of farmers’ suicides in France through a child's eyes. Léo’s trauma expresses itself through the fantastic: by way of a hallucinatory investigation, he is going to explore his buried feelings.

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Director

Lucie Prost

Cast

Finnegan Oldfield, Megan Northam, Florence Loiret Caille, Léna Laurent, Andranic Manet

Producer

Lucie Fichot, Nelson Ghrénassia

Production manager

Marie Sonne Jensen

Cinematography

Thomas Favel

Editing

Lila Desiles

Sound

Cédric Berger

Sound editing

Damien Boitel

Sound mixing

Xavier Thieulin

Music

Pierre Desprats

Casting

Laure Cochener

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