Ciné Club - "À l’abordage"

Join us for a Francophone movie night as we watch À l’abordage, directed by Guillaume Brac.

On a hot summer night in Paris, Félix meets a young woman, Alma, and falls in love. The next morning, Alma hops on a train to join her family in southern France. Félix, determined to follow his soulmate, embarks on a carpool ride with his best friend Chérif and their reluctant driver Edouard. When the car breaks down upon arrival, things turn sour: Alma doesn’t seem too pleased by this unexpected visit…

Film will be shown in French with English subtitles.

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Guillaume Brac is a French film director from Paris. He has directed films such as Tonnerre, July Tales, Treasure Island, and À l'abordage.

Guillaume Brac's 2011 film, Un monde sans femmes, was nominated for the César Award for Best Short Film at the 37th César Awards. His debut feature film, Tonnerre, had its world premiere at the 2013 Locarno Festival. It stars Vincent Macaigne, Solène Rigot, and Bernard Ménez. It was nominated for the 2014 Louis Delluc Prize for Best Directorial Debut.

He served as one of the jury members in the Caméra D'or section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. His second feature film, July Tales, had its world premiere at the 2017 Locarno Festival. After that, he directed a documentary film, Treasure Island, which had its world premiere at the 2018 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 2020, he returned with a fiction film, À l'abordage, which had its world premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It won a special mention from the FIPRESCI jury.