30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Italian premiere

In Corsica, summers are very hot. All it takes is a spark to start a devastating fire. This is where the film was born, a suggestive anarchist poem by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel who have known these summers firsthand and who combine shots of real fires made by other people with the scenes interpreted in the film. On the pop notes and rhythm of tanker planes, Caroline reflects on her role as an activist and on the motivations of her gestures. She then hoods up, grabs the gas cans, and transforms into a determined arsonist, against the unheard calls for help from a dying planet and the unbridled overbuilding and the consumption of wild territory. Faced with political apathy and irreparable damage to our living conditions, Caroline chooses to destroy rather than repair. The fire of anger that burns within her turns into flames that consume the earth, bringing with it feelings of disillusionment and existential turmoil.

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  Caroline Poggi

  Caroline Poggi was born in Ajaccio (France) in 1990. She holds a masters in cinema from the University of Paris IV. She made several films before beginning an artistic collaboration with Jonathan Vinel. Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe (2014) won the Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlinale. Their first feature film, Jessica Forever (2018), premiered at TIFF and later at the Berlinale.
  

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  Jonathan Vinel

  Jonathan Vinel is a French director born in 1988. He studied at La Fémis in Paris. In 2014 he directed the film Notre amour est assez puissant. The same year he began his artistic partnership with Caroline Poggi. The directors won the Golden Lion in the short film section of the Berlinale with Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe (2014).