PARADISES OF DIANE
After the birth of her first child, Diane disappears in an unknown city, but her body reawakens her memories and what she is fleeing from.
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On a winter’s evening, a woman wanders through the busy streets of Benidorm. Diane is alone, with only a bag from the pharmacy in her arms. She has left behind Martin and her newborn baby at the women’s clinic in Zurich. In the glow of the neon signs, Diane seems like a shadow moving to the beat of the city – a Mediterranean Las Vegas in decline.
In this parallel world of all-inclusive tourists, revelers and eccentrics, Diane meets Rose. Without many words, these two strangers find their way to each other, a mutual adoption of two lonely souls. Far from home, Diane reconnects with her body and finds truth…
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Berlin Film Festival 2024 - Panorama
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Directors Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassmann Screenwriter Carmen Jaquier Cast Dorothée De Koon, Aurore Clément, Omar Ayuso, Stéphane Lagarde, Duncan Airlie James, Roland Bonjour Editor Carole Le Page Director of Photography Thomas Szczepanski Producers Lisa Blatter, Jan Gassmann Co-Producer Camille Genaud Production Designers Matthias Maurer, Silvan Kuhl, Anne Weick Sound Design Mélia Roger Music Marcel Vaid Costumes Anne Weick Year 2024 Category Fiction Language French, German, English Run time 97 mns Original title Les Paradis de Diane Countries of production Switzerland, France Production companies 2:1 Film Co-Production companies Paraiso Production
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CARMEN JAQUIER, born in Geneva, initially learned graphic design before making her first short films as a self-taught filmmaker. She later joined the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). Her graduation film, Le Tombeau des filles, received the Pardino d’argento at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011. She then delved into image and editing within the Aamen collective, creating two short films, Les Vagues and Le Bal des Sirènes. Her films La Rivière sous la langue and Heimatland (a collective feature film) were selected for the Locarno Film Festival in 2015. Additionally, she worked on the cinematography for Emmanuelle Antille’s film A Bright Light - Karen and the Process, presented at the Visions du Réel Festival in 2018. Her first feature film, Thunder released in 2022, has been showcased at various festivals (Toronto, San Sebastian, Busan, Rome) and has received numerous awards, including Best Director at the Marrakech Film Festival. It was chosen to represent Switzerland at the Oscars.
JAN GASSMANN is a director working on the borderline between fiction and documentary filmmaking.In 2004, he began his studies in documentary filmmaking at HFF Munich. His first feature film, Chrigu, was presented at the 57th Berlinale and was successful in theaters. He won a Bern and Zurich Cinema Award in 2008, as well as the Walo Prize in 2009. Jan Gassmann then directed his first fictional feature film, Off Beat, selected for the Panorama section of the 60th Berlinale, and co-directed the documentary Karma Shadub, winner of the International Jury Prize at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon. In 2015, he initiated the political and collective film Heimatland, presented in the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2016, his film Europe, she loves, about four couples on the outskirts of Europe, was chosen as the opening film of the Panorama Dokumente at the Berlinale. The film won several awards and was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize and the European Film Prize. In 2022, Gassmann directed 99 Moons, produced by Zodiac Pictures. This amour-fou made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Acid section. The film was sold to more than 25 territories.
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Read the full Interview in the presskit.
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Check out the Variety interview: HERE.
th courage and poetry, Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann tackle the theme of motherhood, both its darker sides and the consequences of decisions which society struggles to accept." CINEUROPA
"Following the birth of her daughter, Diane can’t bring herself to hold her baby in her arms and fails to forge the maternal bond which society insists is innate." CINEUROPA
"Paradises of Diane is a hard to forget and radical film which successfully conveys the complex natures of characters who have chosen to look inside of themselves to the point of the abyss." CINEUROPA
“Daring to explore the theme of women leaving motherhood behind, this work joins a short list of films disputing the primal nature of motherhood as identity” UNIVERSAL CINEMA
“The film attemps with empathy and kindness to a remarkable actress (Dorothéé de Koon, composer of the soundtrack for “Bonheur Académieé) to capture the pyschological evolution of a woman faced with motherhood.” ABUS DE CINE *****
“'Paradises of Diane' is one of those rare films that, beyond the cinematic experience, question and shake up morals. Indeed, at the end of the screening in Berlin, the room emptied under the discreet murmurs of a few situational quarrels.” CINEMAN *****
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