SACD authors' favorite : This Life of Mine

This Life of Mine by Sophie Fillières 

The SACD cinema commission awards Sophie Fillières the SACD authors' favorite of the Directors' Fortnight for her film This Life of Mine.

Anne Villacèque : « This year, within a particularly eclectic selection, we had to decide. Deciding between novel and poetry, right arm and left arm, grandiose or more modest films. We chose the film whose heart beat the strongest, and continued to move us afterwards. A daring, delicate, unpredictable film, the culmination of a body of work full of dissonance and sideways steps, as its director liked to say. It's a film that walks on the edge of the abyss, hobbling along, but always valiantly, sowing along the way lots of little white pebbles like so many magic formulas to help us resist. Resisting the darkness of the world, the loneliness of early gray mornings, the life that runs away. Pif! Paf! Youkou! is Sophie's latest battle cry, her eternal viaticum, and her best joke. On behalf of my fellow filmmakers at the SACD, I am very proud and moved to announce that our favorite goes to This Life of Mine by Sophie Fillières. »

Previous SACD winners of the Quinzaine des Cinéastes:

Pierre Creton for the film A Prince (France, 2023), Thomas Salvador for the film The Mountain (France, 2022), Vincent Maël Cardona for the film Les Magnétiques (France, 2021), Rebecca Zlotowski for the film Une fille facile (France, 2019), Pierre Salvadori for the film En liberté ! (France, 2018), Claire Denis for the film Un beau soleil intérieur (France 2017) et Philippe Garrel pour L’amant d’un jour (France 2017), Solveig Anspach for the film L’effet Aquatique (France, 2016), Arnaud Desplechin for the film Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (France, 2015), Thomas Cailley for the film Les Combattants (France, 2014), Guillaume Gallienne for the film Les garçons et Guillaume, à table ! (France, 2013) et Serge Bozon with a spécial mention for the film Tip Top (France, 2013), Noémie Lvovsky for the film Camille redouble (France, 2012), Bouli Lanners for the film Les Géants (Belgique, 2011), Olivier Masset-Depasse for the film Illégal (Belgique, 2010), Xavier Dolan for the film J’ai tué ma mère (Québec, 2009), Claire Simonfor the film Les bureaux de Dieu (France, 2008).