CHILDHOODS (Enfances) Official Selection: Kiev Molodist International Film Festival (2007), Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (2007), Turin International Film Festival (2007) Drama France, 2008 In French with English subtitles 35mm/1.85/Color/Dolby DTS/80 min Directed by: Ismaël Ferroukhi, Corinne Garfin, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Yann Le Gal, Isild Le Besco, Safy Nebbou Written by: Yann Le Gal Cinematography by: Lubomir Bakchev, Benoît Chamaillard, Éric Guichard, Jowan Le Besco, Toni Malamatelios, Stéphane Patti Editing by: Tina Baz Le Gal, Julia Grégory, Liza Ignazi, Bernard Sasia Original Music by: Evgueni Galperine, Tal Haddad Produced by: Laurence Darthos Production Company: Tara Films Co-produced by: Arte France International sales: UMEDIA 14, rue du 18 Août 93100 Montreuil Tel: +33 1 48 70 73 18 www.umedia.fr With: Julie Gayet (Fritz Lang’s mother), Clotilde Hesme (Gabrielle), Isild Le Besco (Orson Welles’s aunt), Elsa Zylberstein (Ingmar Bergman’s mother), Grégoire Azouvy (Alfred Hitchcock), Brandon Darai (Orson Welles), Maxime Juravliov (Jacques Tati), Virgil Leclaire (Fritz Lang), Eliott Margue (Jean Renoir), Max Renaudin (Ingmar Bergman), Maurice Antoni (Pierre-Auguste Renoir), Octave Arveiller (Ingmar Bergman’s brother), Anne Benoit (Alice Renoir), Emmanuelle Bercot (Orson Welles’ mother), Pascal Bongard (Orson Welles’ father), Pascal Elso (Ingmar Bergman’s father), Patrick Fierry (Fritz Lang’s father), Jonathan Joss (Fritz Lang’s brother), Margot Meynard (Alfred Hitchcock’s mother), Frédéric Papalia (Godefer), Vincent Solignac (Alfred Hitchcock’s father) www.enfance-lefilm.com Written by Yann Le Gal and directed by several young filmmakers, Childhoods is a series of vignettes recreating moments in the childhood of iconic filmmakers Fritz Lang, Jacques Tati, Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock. Based on the idea that a single moment can profoundly influence one’s artistic direction, each segment takes a real-life incident or anecdote in the filmmaker’s early life and imagines how it relates to his future body of work. It is also a young generation paying homage to the filmmakers that influenced them, and more than an object of curiosity reserved to cinephiles, Childhoods is a film about the lasting impact of our worst childhood fears. Yann Le Gal has written several films and docudramas for television, including Corps Perdus (2008) and Joséphine (2006). He wrote all the segments in Childhoods and directed one of them, A Secret Beyond the Door. He gathered an eclectic group of directors for the project, from newcomers Corinne Garfin and actress turned filmmaker Isild Le Besco (The Untouchable, Girls Can’t Swim, Backstage) to established Writer-Directors Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (I Want To See, Around the Pink House, Cendres), Safy Nebbou (The Giraffe’s Neck, Mark of an Angel) and Ismaël Ferroukhi (Too Much Happiness, Zero Guilt, Le Grand Voyage). PRESS "The child is father to the filmmaker in "Childhoods," an entertaining re-creation of incidents in the lives of several revered auteurs by a series of lesser-known French helmers...The combination of homage, drama and parlor game will appeal to movie buffs." (Variety) "Each film is a jewel of finesse in its direction as well as in the direction given to the young actors (who are excellent)." (Studio) "The directors manage to avoid obvious pastiche or literal storytelling in order to create original miniatures (...). This is material rich in life and dreams, with smooth and mysterious folds." (Figaroscope)