The Graduation

The Graduation

Original title: Le concours
Director: Claire Simon
Screenplay: Claire Simon
Director of Photography: Claire Simon
Editor: Luc Forveille
Country: France
Year of production: 2016
Length (min): 115
Language: French
Subtitles: Czech, English
Sales: Wide House
Section: Panorama
Sponsors: l’Institut français de Prague

How are filmmakers “made” in France? The crème de la crème graduated and then started teaching at the legendary Parisian film school, La Fémis. Claire Simon, the head of the directing department, documents the brutal several-months-long admission process which ends with selecting a mere forty candidates. Everybody is equal, but according to this powerful institution, only some will be the future of the French cinema.

With support

l’Institut français de Prague

Similar films


Newsletter