Writer|Director: Pilar Anguita-MacKay
Director of Photography: Acacio de Almeida (AIP)
Starring : Julie Depardieu, Marie-Jos?e Croze, Nicolas Rossier
World premier: Released in February 2006

Plot

It's a weekend in winter: three siblings are reunited at their mother's deathbed after years of separation and find themselves facing their radically different understandings of the event that had driven them apart. Constance remains staunchly loyal and loving to her mother; Elise holds on to bitter memories and resentments; their brother, Xavier, believes himself to blame for events long gone.

Told partly in flashbacks, the characters' disparate recollections reveal how much the shadow of a single incident has affected each of them. As they struggle with the pain of the past and the fragility of memory?replete with inaccuracies, nuances and attachments?something shifts. They are finally liberated from the history they had held onto, as the truth is revealed. ? Zoe Elton

Awards and Festivals:

The screenplay was awarded the SSA - Swiss Screenwriting Award - at Locarno 2002.
The film was presented at the Filmfest Hamburg 2006 where it opened the Section Voil? and celebrated its US premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2006. It has been selected in the international competition of the 2006 Cairo International Film Festival and in the section Cinema of the World: Time & Tide of the 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam. It has also been selected at the 42nd Solothurn International Film Festival, Switzerland. 10th Flying Broom International Women?s Film Festival, Turkey. 10th Shangai International Film Festival, Panorama. SANFIC 3 International Film Festival, Chili. 1st Zerkalo International Film Festival, Russia. European Film Festival San Antonio, USA. 13th Calcutta International Film Festival, India, November 2007

World Sales:
High Point Films & Television (London)

Contact:
info[at]olympiafilms.com

Coproduced with:
La T?l?vision Suisse Romande - Philippe Berthet

Supported by:
Federal Office of Culture (FDHA) - Switzerland
City and Canton of Zurich
Cultural foundation SUISSIMAGE
Canton of Fribourg

Extracts of dialogues:
CONSTANCE
La m?moire te revient ?!

ELISE
Papa ne s?est pas laiss? humilier...

CONSTANCE
Maman n'?tait qu'une victime!

ELISE
Constance est toujours du c?t? des victimes. Tu ne m'as pas d?fendue quand Maman m'a pris mon v?lo pour te le donner.

CONSTANCE
Qu'est-ce que ?a a ? voir?

ELISE
Papa me l'avait offert!

CONSTANCE
C??tait il y a plus de vingt-cinq ans. Tu vas t?en remettre?