NOMINATION FOR EUROPEAN YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD 2023

In the feverish summer heat, three lost souls meet on the shores of Lake Geneva. The gentle fourteen-year-old Margaux, the rebellious foster child Juliette and Joël, a fisherman who has just returned from Indonesia because of the death of his mother. The lake, nature and an idyllic fishing harbour become their hideaway, where they find each other for a brief moment. Until reality tears them apart again.

Directed by: Jenna Hasse

Written by: Jenna Hasse, Nicole Stankiewicz, Julien Bouissoux

Produced by: Olivier Zobrist, Anne-Catherine Lang

Cinematography: Valentina Provini

Editing: Noémie Fy

Production Design: Margaux Renvoisé

Costume Design: Eléonore Cassaigneau

Make-Up: Virginie Pernet, Laura Pozzi

Sound: Camille Bonard, Paul Jousselin, Benoît Gargonne, Benjamin Viau

Original Score: Cedric Blaser

Visual Effects: Sylvain Coisne

Casting Director: Minna Prader

Cast: Clarisse Moussa, Esin Demircan, Marc Oosterhoff

Original Title: L'AMOUR DU MONDE

Film Production Country: Switzerland

Statement of the Director/s
L‘AMOUR DU MONDE is my first feature film, but it follows on from my previous short films „En Août“ (2014) and „Soltar“ (2016). The same female character runs through these films and she has always the same name, Margaux. In „En Août“, it was six-and-a-half-year-old Clarisse Moussa who played Margaux. Now, seven years later, she is a young teenager in L‘AMOUR DU MONDE. Margaux is a character close to me, a kind of alter ego, inspired by the women around me, by my family history and the places I grew up.

The novel by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, „L‘amour du monde“ (1928), whose title I have adopted, was the trigger for this project, not only because it critically describes French-speaking Switzerland, but also because it speaks of the confusion between images and reality. The film also shares the setting with the novel, the shores of Lake Geneva, a sublime but self-contained area surrounded by mountains, where the protagonists vacillate between the desire to escape to a real or dreamed elsewhere and the acceptance of the here and now.

In this region the three protagonists meet, all looking for their place in the world, a family or new bonds. Margaux suffers from her father‘s absence, the breakup of first loves and unfulfilled fantasies. Juliette, who is placed in a home, and Joël, who has just lost his mother and only returned to Switzerland for the summer, also struggle with the absence of their parents.

L‘AMOUR DU MONDE is a quiet, atmospheric film that captures the summer mood and is set in the region where I grew up. Margaux, Juliette and Joël escape reality together and experience encounters with other people, nature and the landscape that surrounds them. I wanted to stay close to the characters and their faces to show how they evolve and how they change throughout the story they experience.

Jenna Hasse

Biography of the Director/s
Jenna Hasse (*1989, Lisbon) is of Swiss and Portuguese nationality. She grew up in Switzerland and studied in Brussels, where she graduated in acting in 2014 from INSAS. In the same year she presented her first short film „En Août“ at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, which then moved on to receive many awards at international festivals. She switches back and forth between acting in film and theatre and directing. In 2016, she presented her short film „Soltar” at the FIFF Namur and at Curtas Vila do Conde. In 2020, she presented her mid-length documentary „Il Protagonista” at Doclisboa and at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva. LONGING FOR THE WORLD is her first feature-length film.

Filmography of the Director/s
2023 - LONGING FOR THE WORLD - L'AMOUR DU MONDE, Feature
2019 - IL PROTAGONISTA, Short
2016 - SOLTAR, Short
2014 - EN AOÛT / IN AUGUST, Short

Production Company:
Langfilm
Olivier Zobrist
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +41448656627
Website: www.langfilm.ch

World Sales:
Latido Films
Juan Torres
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +34915488877
Website: https://www.latidofilms.com/