FREE PARTY
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Feature-lenght documentary by Fabianny Deschamps
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IN POST-PRODUCTION
91 min | 2024 | France
In a remote village in Northern India, women, deprived of everything because they are widows, come to find refuge. Exiled from the world of the living, they wander obsessively in this open-air purgatory, singing praises to the god Krishna for hours on end until they forget their own names.
Credits
With Padma, Parashmani, Kamini, Pratima, Bassanti, Shobha, Radhe
Voice over : Twisha Deb
Written and directed by Fabianny Deschamps
In co-production with Paraíso (France)
Photography : Tommaso Fiorilli, Emmanuel Gras
Sound: Alexandre Hecker, Fabianny Deschamps
Original music : Olaf Hund
Editing : Anna Riche
Color grading : Emmanuel Fortin
With the support of CNC (Advance on Receipts), the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, the Île-de-France Region and SACEM
Workshops and festivals
2023 : Project selected for residency at Chalet Mauriac (France)
2023 : Projet selected at Festival Entrevues/Films en cours (Belfort)
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Director's note
Taking a staunchly opposing stance to exclusion, the film portrays this space for all, this enclave, both a "human dump" and a refuge. It stands with the women who are trying to escape their condition. For it is in this antechamber of death that life nonetheless persists and sometimes even flourishes. It is also this attempt at freedom, this quest for a possible escape, often fragile, threatened on all sides by economic precariousness, tradition, and omnipresent male authority.
Production's note
With FREE PARTY, while staying true to the style of her previous films, Fabianny fully embraces a documentary narrative for the first time, because here reality surpasses fiction. The City of Widows has been a longstanding concern for Fabianny. This place, which exposes the extreme violence and inhumanity of the female condition in India, has scarcely been documented, and it is imperative to bear witness to it. Fabianny stands with the women: their voices, their journeys, their lives, their faces, carry the film.
Fabianny Deschamps
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After 12 years of theater in creation companies, at the Conservatoire and at Cours Florenty, Fabianny Deschamps exhibited her installations at the Porto Santo Biennial of Contemporary Art in Portugal and at La Bellevilloise in Paris. Then, she directed two theater plays : MY FAMILY by C. Liscano at Plateau 31 in Gentilly and ELENA CEAUSESCU, SECRETS FILES by P. Rambaud and F. Szpiner at La Métive and at the National Stage of Aubusson.
As a filmmaker, she wrote and directed five short films (STORIES OF BONSAI, IN MY BOSOM, THE DEEP END, PASCOA, THE EDGE) broadcast on France 2 and awarded at international festivals. Her first feature film NEW TERRITORIES, shot in Hong Kong, and her second, ISOLA, shot in Italy, were both programmed at ACID / Cannes.
President of ACID in 2018, Fabianny Deschamps worked as a script reader and consultant for CNC and Studiocanal.
She is currently developing a fantastic tale inspired by A REBOURS by Huysmans for cinema.
ISOLA
Fiction, 90 min, 2017, France/Tunisia/Italy
Cannes/ACID, 2016
Split Festival, 2016
Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montreal, 2016
Festa do Cinema Frances, 2016
Best direction at Agadir Cinéma and Migrations Festival, 2016
Release France : 2017/12/06 (La Huit)
NEW TERRITORIES
Fiction, 90 min, 2015, France
Cannes /ACID, 2014
Montreal World FF, 2014
Festa do Cinema Frances, 2014
Festival French May, 2015
Festival Entrevues Belfort, 2015
Release France: 2015/12/02 (ZED)
THE EDGE
Fiction, 35 mm, 17 min, 2009, France
Produced as part of the extended series CYPRINE in collaboration with Jihane Chouaib, Katell Quillévéré, Maria Beatty and Florence Miailhe.
Festival Côté court de Pantin
PASCOÀ
Fiction, 5 min, 2007, Portugal
Produced as part of the campaign for the decriminalization of abortion in Portugal in February 2007
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THE DEEP END
Fiction, 35 mm, 28 min, 2006, France
Award from the Picardie region screenplay competition
Lutin for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, 2007
Broadcast : France 2, Ciné-cinéma, TV5
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IN MY BOSOM
Fiction, 35 mm, 18 min, 2004, France
Nomination for the award Novais Texeira by Syndicat français de la critique
Clermont Ferrand /Labo, 2004
Broadcast : RTP
STORIES OF BONSAÏ
Fiction, 35 mm, 17min, 2002
Prize-Winner of l’Eure du 7ème art (residency at moulin d’Andé C.E.CI)
Ciné-Guinguette Cannes, 2002
Bratislava Artfilm festival, 2003
Broadcast : RTP
