LA BALEINE is in production now
Production News January 2025
In production
LA BALEINE by Sylvère Petit, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc is in production. Written by Sylvère Petit and Nathan Le Graciet, the story takes us back to autumn 1985. A storm awakens the Mediterranean. A village is devastated, the harvest ravaged. The sea has deposited a whale on the beach. It’s dead and is declared a carrier of disease. With his tractor, his harvest trailer and three kitchen knives, ailing, misanthrope wine grower, Corbac, wants to save the cetacean’s skeleton from a sanitary blast of dynamite. Day and night, his daughter Mathilde sees the biggest of creatures paraded, piece by piece, past the church, the school and the distillery, awakening the villagers’ unconscious minds and stirring up violence. Mathilde knows her father: he’ll see it through to the bitter end… Serge Lalou and Sophie Cabon produce LA BALEINE for Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée, in co-production with Iota Production (Isabelle Truc and Lawrence Absalon) Upside Films, Spain’s Imagic Telecom. Pre-purchased by Ciné+, the feature film enjoys support via a CNC advance on receipts, as well as backing from Eurimages, the Gan Film Foundation, the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée region (where filming will unfold until 14 February, with Michaël Capron heading up photography), Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, the SOFICA companies Cineventure and Cofimage, and Procirep/Angoa. It also benefits from partnerships with the Pelagis Observatory and Paris’ Natural History Museum, and enjoys further backing from Le Groupe Ouest and the Francophone Co-Production Meetings, among other sources.
In post-production
- WASHED AND BURIED by Martin Turk, producers: EAVE graduates Ida Weiss, EAVE MW and FFF graduate Marta Zaccaron is in post-production. The film follows Nadja, a successful 40-year-old lawyer, who returns to her remote hometown to fulfil her late grandmother's enigmatic final wish, making her face with long-forgotten places and encounters, as well as hidden family truths that challenge her perception of the past. Produced by Ida Weiss of Bela Film (Slovenia), the film is a co-production with Marta Zaccaron of Incipit Film (Italy) and Inja Korać of Cobra Chicks (Croatia), with national co-producers RTV Slovenija and Senca Studio also attached to the project. The production is financially backed by the Slovenian Film Centre, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission and Creative Europe – MEDIA. The film was shot on location in Val Canale, Italy. The region is known for its local rituals and traditions, which served as inspiration for the film's story.
Page published 29 January 2025. Updated 30 January 2025.
