Award-winning French writer Christine Angot is invited for business to Strasbourg where her father had lived before dying several years ago. It’s the city where she met him for the first time at the age of 13, and where he sexually abused her over the following years. His wife and children still live there. Determined to understand how her family have dealt with the situation, Angot takes a camera, and knocks on their doors to push them to clarity their attitudes to her father’s crime that stretched over so many years. The use of archives, especially domestic, intimate images, gives a very powerful dimension to the narrative. A family is a mind blowing cinematographic journey that challenges social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.
France 2024, '82
DIRECTOR: Christine Angot
SCENARIO: Christine Angot
CAMERA: Caroline Champetier, Inês Tagarin, Hugo Martin
MONTAGE: Pauline Gaillard
PRODUCERS: Bertrand Faivre, Alice Girard
PRODUCTION: LE BUREAU, RECTANGLE PRODUCTIONS
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Berlinale: Tagesspiegel Reader’s Jury Award (2024)
Christine Angot
Christine Angot (1959, Châteauroux) is a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. She published her first novel, Vu du Ciel (Gallimard), as early as 1990, but it was her work titled L’Inceste (Stock), published in 1999, that propelled her to the status of a prominent figure in contemporary Francophone literature. This was followed by, among others, Les Désaxés and Une partie du Cœur (Stock), both awarded the France Culture Prize in 2005; Rendez-Vous (Flammarion), recipient of the Prix de Flore in 2006; Une semaine de vacances (Flammarion) in 2012; Un amour impossible (Flammarion), winner of the Prix Décembre in 2015, and Voyage dans l’Est (Flammarion) for which she was awarded the Prix Médicis in 2021. She was appointed an Officer of Arts and Letters in 2013 and has been a member of the Goncourt Academy since February 2023. A Family is her debut film.
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