Beaks
Best Short Fiction
Xavier Demoulin
France,
Fiction,
22’30’’
In the north of France where cockfights are still authorized, 22 years old Anaïs gets into heavy debts after her father, a former fighting roosters’ breeder, passes away. As she needs to quickly find money, the young woman has no choice but to dive into the world of cockfights and make Balthazar, her father’s last rooster, fight.
Film block:
FICTION / BREAKING BOUNDARIES
Screening:
Palace of Culture Pernik, Hall 1
- Language
- Country France
- Genre Fiction
- Cinematographer Alexandre Cabanne
- Scriptwriter Xavier Demoulin and Louise Dubois
- Producer Archibald Martin
- Music Stéphane Gassot
- Editor Mona-Lise Lafant
- Cast Anaïs – Laurena Thellier, Tom – Raphaël Thiery, The cockfights’ organizer – Michel Masiero
- Year of creation 2023
- Duration 22’30’’
After a Bachelor in Cinema at the University Paris 1 in 2006, Xavier Demoulin directed in 2014 his first short movie, L’étang, produced by Good Fortune Films. Selected in many festivals, L’étang is awarded best short movie at the FMK International Short Film Festival (Podernone, Italy), and it obtains the Afficionado Ficcion price at the Ciné de Bogota Festival (Bogota, Colombia). In 2022, Xavier Demoulin co-writes with Louise Dubois Beaks and Nails, a short movie produced by Melocoton Films.
