Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Valérie Mréjen
A car trip will be an opportunity for a son to at last tell his father everything that is weighing on his heart.
Shot in Tel-Aviv, this documentary is about Jews who were raised Ultra-Orthodox and then made the choice to become secular. For most of them, this decision meant severing ties with their families and the community and setting out alone to find their footing in an unfamiliar society.
An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer.
Valvert is a psychiatric hospital in Marseille, founded in the mid-seventies in a spirit of freedom and openness. The film observes daily life there, painting a portrait of the place through interviews with employees and scenes from the patients’ lives. In an atmosphere resolutely opposed to the standard institutional system, the liberty at Valvert reveals various facets of ordinary madness.
