World of Our Own, A  France
2008, 91min.
Prod.: Alain Chabat, Amandine Billot, Christine Rouxel, Script: Frederic Balekdjian, Fabien Vehlmann, Dir.: Frederic Balekdjian, Dir. of Phot.: Stephan Massis, Music by: Erwann Kermorvant, Prod. Design: Jean-Luc Raoul, Sound: Ludovic Henault, Edit.: Mike Fromentin
Cast: Edouard Baer, Anton Balekdjian, Nassereba Keita, Philippe Lefebvre, Mariame Gaye, Julien Frison,Morgan Pierrard, Xavier Maly, Vռronique Gallet, Alain Chabat,Jean-Franջois Stռvenin.
Marc is a criminal on the run from both the law and his cohorts; he rents a farmhouse in a small rural community where he lays low with his twelve-year-old son Noe. Marc is convinced that one of his many enemies will come after him, so he's training Noe to help him fight off anyone who invades their new compound, and every evening after Noe comes home from school his father drills him in various forms of combat and self-defense. Noe has not been encouraged to make new friends at school, and while he strikes up a friendship with Marine, a girl in his class who he helped stand up to a bunch of bullies, realizes he can't tell her much about his life or his family without putting his dad in grave danger. In time, Noe becomes increasingly curious about Marc's life of crime, and sets out to learn just what his father has done.
Production Company
Chez Wam
| Balekdjian, Frédéric Frédéric Balekdjian (born 1964, Le Raincy, France)
In 1984 he entered the film section of the Louis Lumière Schoolin Noisy-le-Grand. He also attended a theatre school for two years, and worked as a cameraman and theatre director before he began writing and directing films. His early short films are: Hors saison (1990) and Tout ce temps que je n’ai pas passé dans les cafés (1995). His first long feature film, released in 2005, is Gamblers (Les mauvais jouers), which Balekdjian both wrote and directed. Set in Paris’s textile workshop district, the film was shot entirely with a hand-held camera. In 2005 it was screened at the Edinburgh IFF and at the Berlin IFF where it was awarded the Manfred Salzgeber Prize; in the judges’ words, the film “succeeds in treating the subject of illegal immigration and cultural displacement through an innovative form and original vision.”
Filmography
Hors saison (1989), Tout ce temps que je n'ai pas passé dans les cafés (1995), Gamblers (2005), Un monde à nous (2008).
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