Cécilia and Ludo are a young couple who love to stroll through their village's annual funfairs, escaping from their daily routine. But an unexpected opportunity will put their relationship to the test. A young couple fan of the funfair in their village will see their relationship being questioned after an unexpected opportunity.
Paola Valentin is a French artist, actress, and director born in Perche in 1994. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris and then trained as an actress in the free class at the Cours Florent, before joining the École du Nord under the direction of Christophe Rauck. She has performed in several major plays, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, directed by Pauline Baille at the Théâtre Public de Montreuil, and the role of La Marquise in La Seconde surprise de l'amour, directed by Cécile Garcia Fogel. Alongside her acting career, she has organized several exhibitions at L'étoile du Nord in Paris and at the Maison Folle in Lille. After appearing in several short and feature films, she star her directorial career in 2022 with Trois Mots de rien, which was selected for the Premier Plan Festival in Angers and the Champ Élysée Film Festival.
Ada lives alone in her house in the countryside. As her mind is meeting the effects of age, she receives recurring visits from a young man dressed in black with a pale face. Without uttering a word, he plunges her back into her past, her memories, and her questions about her roots and her country of origin: Turkey.
Born in Turkey, Atuğ Kaan Paçaci is a film director and a screenwriter based in Paris. After working for the Ankara International Film Festival, he began a career as a film critic for the Turkish magazine Sekans, where he was editor-in-chief between 2015 and 2016. With a master's degree from EICAR (the International Film and Television School), he directed his first short film, Past Mortem, in 2025.
In 1939, a soldier meets a young woman. A love story begins, but the soldier is called to the front, and the war dissolves their idyll. During a long interview, this woman, now 91 years old, reveals the secrets of a forgotten era. What remains of a love story after three-quarters of a century and a world war?
Bogdan Stamatin is a Romanian director working between France and Romania. In 2018, he directed Une Semaine maximum deux, which screened at numerous international festivals, including the Aubagne International Film Festival. He is also the founder and organizer of the Campulung Film Fest in his hometown.
Mélody Boulissière is a graduate of ENSAD (Paris) and La Poudrière (Valence). She gained recognition with her graduation film, Ailleurs, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation in 2016. In 2018, she directed Étourdis étourneaux for the "En sortant de l’école" collection, broadcast on France Télévisions.
Born in Warsaw in 1982, Ania Szczepanska made her first short films in France, in the art section of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, before moving to Berlin to study philosophy and cinema. On her return to Paris, she completed a thesis in film history on the relationship between Polish filmmakers and Communist rule in working-class Poland.
Alejandro Bordier is a French-spanish director who has completed film studies in different parts of the world such as Florida, Madrid or Prague. After gaining experience in different fields, he decided to specialise in screenwriting and directing. In his short films, Bordier uses themes such as anxiety, nervous breakdowns in Cecile but also suicide in Caroline sur un toit.
Compost (2025) is a short film by Erik Semashkin, selected for the 21st edition of the L'Europe autour de l'Europe festival.
