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.Filmography
[2017] Diary of My Mind
[2014] Bridges of Sarajevo
[2011] L’Enfant d’En Haut
[2008] Home
[2002] Des Épaules Solides
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.Filmography
[2017] Diary of My Mind
[2014] Bridges of Sarajevo
[2011] L’Enfant d’En Haut
[2008] Home
[2002] Des Épaules Solides