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

Italian premiere

"We'll see!" Suzanne faces life calmly and serenely. She lives alone in the house where she was born in 1930, on the edge of a forest in the French Vosges, where there is no water or electricity, but she knows how to make do using the old methods invented by her grandparents. She spends her time cultivating the vegetable garden, reading the newspaper and taking long walks, without ever feeling alone thanks to visits and phone calls from her friends. The documentary was shot over four seasons, during which the two directors managed to capture, with extreme delicacy, every facet of her existence. The protagonist makes us reflect on the priorities of life, savouring its little pleasures day after day and engaging everyone she meets with her contagious laughter.

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  Stéphane Manchematin

  He has produced, written, and directed documentaries for both television and radio, and teaches Cinema and Audiovisual studies at the Université de Lorraine. In 2014 he shot Le Cristal et la Fumée. With Serge Steyer he directed Le Complexe de la salamandre (2015) and L’Esprit des lieux (2018), winner in 2020 of the Premio Opera Audiovisiva awarded by Scam (Société civile des auteurs multimédia). Suzanne jour àpres jour (2023) is their third collaboration.
  

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  Serge Steyer

  Born in Strasbourg in 1961, he is a director and author of documentaries. He began to deal with ecological emergencies in the 1990s. In 2004 he joined the Films en Bretagne association and later became editorial director of Kultur Bretagne until 2022. He directed, with his colleague Manchematin, such documentaries as Le Complexe de la salamandre (2015) and L’Esprit des lieux (2018). In 2022 he made the documentary Les aventuriers du match perdu.