Film Programme
EYELINER
fiction , Tue, 14:30
France, 2009, 30'
Director: Cecile Rittweger
Director of photography: Valerio Truffa
Writer: Cecile Rittweger
Composer: Nara Noian
Editor: Cecile Rittweger
Synopsis: Theatre Festival, Toulouse. At the exit of a play, two glances meet. The one of a young student, Clara: she is sharp, fresh, a little boyish, a little naive. And the one of one of the actors, Pierre: forty years, attractive, settled in his career, settled in his life. The magic of the shock is such that Clara manages to find him again later that night. By forcing her fortune a little, the daring girl ends up sharing a night of unforgettable love with this actor who is so familiar to her (she had already seen him in a film) and who however does not know anything about her.
Director: Cecile Rittweger
I am a passionate climber and, while doing my degree in literature, I was training and travelling a lot. Climbing led me to filmmaking: I started doing documentaries about the sport, its philosophy, its practisers. I eventually moved to a great climbing place in England (Sheffield). There I combined intensive rock climbing with a master of arts in cinematography and editing. At that point, I was still a bit scared about making fiction short films, because fiction meant acting… and acting was so important for me: secretely, I had always dreamt of becoming and actress, but I wasn’t confident enough to make it real…However, after one year of interpreting for asylum seekers, which I enjoyed though, I decided I had to throw myself into fiction film. I moved to the south of France because I was bored of climbing between rain drops, I was admitted in a filmmaking school very difficult to enter, and, by making successful short films, I became more and more confident about my creativeness. Therefore, I thought I could also gain confidence in my talent for acting and I started to test how people reacted to my acting performances…Today, I am proud to say that I am both a director and an actress, and I’m making my way through the harsh medias universe.