Beyond the Door
Rushing from the chaos of her student job, up the never-ending staircase of her apartment building, Danielle, a West African-French student, calculates that she has enough time to change from her work clothes before her final sociology exam in 20 minutes. Her under-maintained shoebox apartment has other plans. Yanis, a young concierge, comes to help and tries to fix the ancient door lock that has trapped her. As time trickles past, the two strangers find an unexpected solidarity, with only a door to separate them.
Directors Spotlight
Victoria Neto
Director
Victoria began her career with her entry into Ciclic’s scriptwriting residency in France. With a strong desire to make films that represent her French-Congolese heritage, Victoria solidified her education through the prestigious La Résidence program at La Fémis with her thesis short film PEMA, which was bought by Canal+ and has garnered several awards and festival screenings around the world. Victoria has directed a short film for the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, which will soon be broadcasted on Arte in 2024. She is currently working on her next short movie, scheduled to be filmed in 2024.
- Runtime
- 9 minutes
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Director
- Victoria Neto
- Cast
- Maryam MAKOSSO, Tarik KARIOUH
- Cinematographer
- Tommy BOULET
- Editor
- Maude VUILLEZ
- Producer
- Guillaume SEELEUTHNER, Shveta NAIDOO
- Production Design
- Fanny SCHLEMMER
- Screenwriter
- Elodie OLOUNOU
- Sound Design
- Lana LIMAR, Théophile CHAUCHAT, Alexandre GNEOUCHEV
- Premiere
- North America