Excess Will Save Us

Year
2020
Country
France, Sweden
Duration
100’
Director
Morgane Dziurla-Petit

A young film director returns to her family village after a terrorist alert was triggered. As she films the power dynamics of her family members, she comes to understand that they are more connected to this event than she originally thought. Through the making of a short documentary, she becomes closer to her dad Patrick (62) and her cousin Faustine (17), who share the same dream: leaving the village.

  
CREW:
Director: Morgane Dziurla-Petit
Producer: Fredrik Lange, Peter Possne
Cinematographer: Filip Lyman
Sound: Gustaf Berger
Production
Vilda Bomben Film, Film i Väst
Sales:
Cinephil
Awards
Guldbagge Award for Best Short Film (2022)
Director
Morgane Dziurla-Petit
Morgane Dziurla-Petit is a French-born writer and director. In 2017 she settled in Sweden after studying film in Paris and Cannes. Morgane has since written and directed three critically acclaimed shorts (Le Jour, Excess Will Save Us and Grab Them) and one feature film (Excess Will Save Us) which stands at the border between fiction and documentary.
Selected Filmography
Excess Will Save Us (2022), Pitchoune (2020), Gudars Skymning (2019), Grab Them (2020), Le Jour (2018)
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Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
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