Le Semeur
Winner of the New Directors Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, this striking first feature tells a haunting, fable-like story based on real events that took place in the mid-19th century.
Please note that this film is in French, with Dutch subtitles.
Violette is old enough to marry in 1852 when her mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The women spend months in total isolation. Desperate to one day see their men again, they take an oath: if a man comes, he will be for everyone. Life must continue in the belly of each and every one of them.
Marine Francen, France, Belgium, 2017, 98 min. French spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Pauline Burlet, Géraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir, Iliana Zabeth, Françoise Lebrun.