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SILENT VOICESQu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront Supported by: 
2010 Michel d’Ornano Prize  
2010 Lumière Award - Most Promising Young Actress for Pauline Etienne Festival Selection: Greece French Film Festival (2010), Venice International Film Festival ,"Venice Days" (2009), Deauville Film Festival (2009), North American Premiere Drama France, 2009 In French with English subtitles 35mm/1.85/Color/Dolby DTS/120 min Written and directed by: Léa Fehner Cinematography by: Jean-Louis Vialard Editing by: Julien Chigot Music by: Luc Meilland Produced by: Philippe Liégeois, Jean-Michel Rey Production Company: Rezo International Sales: Rezo Films 29, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière 75009 Paris Phone: +33 1.42.46.46.30 www.rezofilms.com Cast: Farida Rahouadj (Zorah), Reda Kateb (Stéphane), Pauline Étienne (Laure), Marc Barbé (Pierre), Vincent Rottiers (Alexandre), Julien Lucas (Antoine), Delphine Chuillot (Céline), Dinara Droukarova (Elsa), Michaël Erpelding (François), Edmonde Franchi (Stéphane’s mother), Léa Fehner lived next to a correction facility when she was growing up. Moved by the ghosts that she saw and heard there, she started volunteering with a non-profit association, offering support to the families visiting their loved ones in jail. This experience inspired the characters in Silent Voices. Sixteen-year old Laure (Pauline Étienne, Private Lessons, Restless) wants to see the incarcerated man with whom she is passionately in love, but she needs an adult to enter the prison. Zorah (Farida Rahouadj, A Day at the Museum (COL•COA 2009), How Much Do You Love Me) has come all the way from Algeria to meet her son’s murderer face to face. Stéphane (Reda Kateb, A Prophet) has agreed to swap places with an inmate who looks like him. They don’t know each other yet, but their paths cross in the visiting room of this prison. LEA FEHNER studied cinema at the Belgium film school INSAS, then graduated from la FEMIS cum laude in 2006. During her studies, she completed internships abroad at the Center for Cinema in Bamako and with the renowned documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh in Cambodia. She has written and directed four short films: Caillou, Dora, Ceux qui tiennent les murs, and most recently, Except the Silence, in competition at the 2007 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and the 2007 Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival. Silent Voices is her debut feature as writer-director. PRESS "Debut by writer-helmer Lea Fehner, who's made several shorts, offers meaty roles for its impressive cast, builds suspense adroitly and makes good use of its contempo Marseilles locations." Leslie Felperin, Variety |