Stella France
2008, 99min.
Prod.: Bruno Berthemy, Script/Dir.: Sylvie Verheyde, Dir. of Phot.: Nicolas Gaurin, Compos.: NousDeux the band, Sound: Dimitri Haulet, Edit.: Christel Dewynter.
Cast: Léora Barbara, Karole Rocher, Benjamin Biolay, Melissa Rodrigues, Laëtitia Guerard, Guillaume Depardieu, Johan Libereau, Jeannick Gravelines, Thierry Neuvic, Valérie Stroh, Anne Benoit, Christophe Bourseiller.
1977. Stella, 11, begins her first year in a prestigious Parisian secondary school. Stella has come out into the world... A new world, far from the one she knows. Almost a miracle. She lives in a cafe, a working-class cafe, on the outskirts of Paris. This new school year will change her life.
Awards
Best Screenplay (Flanders IFF, 2008)
Production Company
LES Films du Veyrier
In co production with
ARTE France Cinema,
WDR / ARTE
| Verheyde, Sylvie Sylvie Verheyde
Studied geography, music and drawing. In 1990 she directed the Juan Rozoff video clip Comment tu dis?and worked on numerous films. Her short films were highly acclaimed: Entre chiens et loups won the Canal+ Award at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival in 1992 and La Maisonverte won the Jury Grand prix at Nancy in 1993. Sylvie Verheyde then wrote the screenplay for Un frՌre, which she went on to direct, benefiting from the “avance sur recettes” subsidy scheme. Un frՌre follows up themes previously dealt with in her short films, via the depiction of a popular, almost marginal milieu and the meeting of two worlds, the suburbs and the capital city. Yet neither is given preference over the other. Instead, the blockages and social cleavages seem to have more to do with the inhibition of people than external circumstances. Selected for the 50th Cannes Festival in the “Cinռmas en France” section, Un frՌre won the Cyril Collard Prize in 1998. And, in addition to the film's success, praised for the high quality of its screenplay and direction, Emma de Caunes's role also won her the Cռsar award for Most Promising Young Actress in 1998. In 2000, Verheyde directed her second feature film, Princesses once again starring Emma de Caunes.
Filmography
La maison verte (1992), Brother (1997), Princesses (2000), A Woman's Love (2001, TV),
Sang froid (2007, TV), Stella (2008).
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