DIARY OF MY MIND

ursula meier

2017, 70’

A few minutes before shooting his father and his mother in cold blood, Benjamin Feller, an 18-year-old young man, apparently uneventful, sends his diary by mail to his literature teacher in which he confesses and explains his double murder. The choice to associate this woman with his act and to unwillingly take her in the fall, follows several months of an educational relationship that encouraged the students to write a diary. The teacher find herself interrogated by the law, and soon confronted with her own doubts. What if her taste for a literature, haunted by the torments of the human soul, made her blind before the distress of her pupil and what was hidden behind the feverish prose he had made her read long before his crime?

about the director ursula meier

Swiss and French, Ursula Meier studied filmmaking in Belgium. In 2008, she released her first feature film, Home, which has been premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics` Week and received several awards and distinctions, including three Césars’ nominations. Sister, her second feature film, received a Silver Bear-Special Award at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival, was nominated for the Independant Spirit Awards and Kacey Mottet Klein for Best Male Newcomer’s César. She also directed Les Ponts de Sarajevo.

TRAILER  

original title

JOURNAL DE MA TÊTE

country

Switzerland

ratings

16

screenplay

Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier

cinematography

Jeanne Lapoirie

editing

Nelly Quettier

production designer

Ivan Niclass

sound

Patrick Becker

sound designer

Etienne Curchod

producer

Lionel Baier, Agnieszka Ramu, Françoise Mayor

production manager

Pierre-Alain Schatzmann

production company

Bande à Part Films

associate producer

RTS, SSR SRG, Arte G.E.I.E.

cast

Fanny Ardant, Kacey Mottet-Klein, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Carlo Brandt, Jean-Quentin Châtelain

distribution

Bande à Part Films

contact

info@bandeapartfilms.com

A few minutes before shooting his father and his mother in cold blood, Benjamin Feller, an 18-year-old young man, apparently uneventful, sends his diary by mail to his literature teacher in which he confesses and explains his double murder. The choice to associate this woman with his act and to unwillingly take her in the fall, follows several months of an educational relationship that encouraged the students to write a diary. The teacher find herself interrogated by the law, and soon confronted with her own doubts. What if her taste for a literature, haunted by the torments of the human soul, made her blind before the distress of her pupil and what was hidden behind the feverish prose he had made her read long before his crime?

about the director ursula meier

Swiss and French, Ursula Meier studied filmmaking in Belgium. In 2008, she released her first feature film, Home, which has been premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics` Week and received several awards and distinctions, including three Césars’ nominations. Sister, her second feature film, received a Silver Bear-Special Award at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival, was nominated for the Independant Spirit Awards and Kacey Mottet Klein for Best Male Newcomer’s César. She also directed Les Ponts de Sarajevo.