A Life Like Any Other

Faustine Cros

Une vie comme une autre

de Faustine Cros

SYNOPSIS

Mon père a immortalisé, dans des films de famille, les plus beaux moments de sa vie, tandis que les difficultés de ma mère frappaient l’angle mort de ses images.

Aujourd’hui, je revisite ces films pour raconter une autre histoire : celle d’une femme qui voit son rôle de mère lui enlever peu à peu sa liberté.

Crédits

Un film de Faustine Cros
Image Jean-Louis Cros, Faustine Cros
Son Faustine Cros
Musique originale Ferdinand Cros
Montage Cédric Zoenen, Faustine Cros
Montage son Raphaël Girardot Mixage Jean-Marc Schick
Etalonnage Eric Salleron Principal
Distribution Valérie Declef-Cros, Jean-Louis Cros, Ferdinand Cros, Faustine Cros

Une coproduction Dérives – Julies Freres & Les Films d’Ici – Camille Laemlé en coproduction avec SIC – SoundImageCulture, CBA-Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles, RTBF – Télévision Belge

Avec le soutien du Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Avec la participation du CNC-Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, GSARA, Sacem, Brouillon d’un rêve de la Scam, La Culture avec la Copie Privée, Service public francophone bruxellois et la Wallonie.

Plus d’nformation

2022/68’/SIC/Dérives
français, sous-titré en anglais

Bande-annonce: https://vimeo.com/765462004
Article: What did you really know about motherhood? de Melita Zajc, Oct. 27, 2022

Fesitivals

World Premiere: DOK Leipzig International Competition 2022 – Silver Dove Award and Oeucumenial prize
2022 L’Alternativa (Spanish Premiere) – Special Mention Don Quichotte – Special Mention Best Film

2023 Festival de cinéma En ville (Belgian Premiere) – Best Belgium Film Award – Special Mention Best International Feature
2023 Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Short Films (Egyptian Premiere) – Best Film Award

2023 One World Prague (Czech Premiere)
2023 Festival Imagésanté
2023 Crossing Europe (Austrian Premiere)
2023 ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna 2023 Undehill Festival – Audience Award

2023 Biografilm (Italian Premiere) – Nuovi Talenti Award
2023 Rencontres du film documentaire de Mellionnec (French Premiere) 2023 HEIMAT EUROPA Filmfestspiele
2023 Five Lakes Filmfestival
2023 One Six International Film Festival of debuts of the Eurasian continent
2023 Trevignano Filmfest – Opening Film
2023 Inconvenient Films festival /Nepatogus Kinas
2023 One World Film Festival Slovakia
2023 Verzio Film Festival (Hungarian Premiere)
2023 SiberiaDOC IFF – Audience Award
2023 EU Human Rights Film Days by Puruli Culture&Art
2024 Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke (North American Premiere)
2024 Festival de la Cour Denis
2024 Flickers’ Rhode Island IFF (US Premiere)
2024 Beholders FF (Dutch Premiere)
2024 Mois du Doc – Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles à Paris
2024 Le reel en vue

Prix

  • Prize of the Interreligious Jury at DOK Leipzig 2022
  • Silver Dove for best long documentary or animated film by an up-and-coming director in the International Competitionat DOK Leipzig2022
    JURY STATEMENT

    For taking a bold look at her family, while yearning to understand her mother – any mother; For learning to see her mother the way her mother sees herself – any woman; For learning a new narrative about a family and herself. In seeking to understand a family’s pain, this film gives voice to the primal scream of women, wives and mothers everywhere. For this, the jury awards the Silver Dove to A Life Like Any Other.

  • Special Mention in International Feature Film competition at L’Alternativa 2022
  • Don Quixote International Feature Film Special Mention at L’Alternativa 2022
  • Prize of the Jury for Best Belgian Film at Festival de cinéma EnVille! 2023JURY STATEMENT

    “We chose to award a film that has a personal point of view on a universal societal subject, without miserabilism and with a filmmaker’s point of view, fluid and captivating.”

● Special Mention in the International Competition at Festival de cinéma En Ville! 2023

JURY STATEMENT

“A very important film that touches the heart of the conflict between cinema and life but also between men and women, and that shows and does not give a lesson. It is a film that traces a path of rehabilitation through understanding while being very tender.”

● Best Feature Documentary Award at Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Short Films 2023

“Through a clever assemblage of family footage and newly-shot material, the director has transformed a personal narrative into a cinematic work, creating an imperfect family portrait, with tenderness and humor. It is a remarkable film that blends personal intimacy and political relevance. This film fills a rather blind spot in cinema by exploring the complex subject of depression and the challenges of motherhood.It questions the tight relationship between filming life and living it, and what cinema can provide as answers to our questions. It is an ode to freedom through a human gaze, unconfined bywalls, celebrating movement.”

● 2022 Scam Award for Best Documentary
● Audience Award at Underhill Festival 2023
● Hera“NuoviTalenti”Award for the best first film of the International Competition at Biografilm Festival 2023

● Audience Award at Siberia DOCIFF 2023