SHOCK WAVES : DIARY OF MY MIND
2018 Films • 1h 10m
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?
Direction: Ursula Meier
Script: Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud
Production: Lionel Baier
Co-Production: Agnieszka Ramu, Françoise Mayor
Cinematography: Jeanne Lapoirie
Editing: Nelly Quettier
Production Design: Ivan Niclass
Costume Design: Anna Van Brée
Sound: Etienne Curchod
Visual Effects: Patrick Lindenmaier
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Kacey Mottet-Klein, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Carlo Brandt, Jean-Quentin Châtelain
Original Title: ONDES DE CHOC : JOURNAL DE MA TÊTE
Original Language: French
Film Production Country: Switzerland
Website: http://www.bandeapartfilms.com/portfolio-item/ondes-de-choc-journal-de-ma-tete/
Biography of the Director/s
Ursula Meier studied Film at the IAD in Belgium. Her short films’ and
documentaries’ successes allowed her to get worldwide recognition. She was
chosen to be part of Arte’s collection of TV movies « Male/Feminine» and directed,
in 2002, Strong shoulders. In 2008, her movie Home was part of the Official
competition in Cannes and received several distinctions and awards, including
three Cesars. Sister took the Silver Bear in Berlin International Film Festival,
competed for the Independants Spirit Awards and Kacey Mottet Klein was
nominated for Best Male Newcomer’s Cesar. This film, just as Home, was rewarded
of three Quartz at the Swiss Film Award and represented Switzerland at the
Oscars.
Filmography of the Director/s
- Journal de ma tête (Diary of my mind), 2017
- L’enfant d’en-haut (Sister), 2011
- Home, 2008
- Des épaules solides (Strong shoulders), 2002
Awards Won
Berlin, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Silberner Bär - Sonderpreis 2012 (for Sister)
World Sales:
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