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Sunny Afternoon

By

Grégoire Bénabent

Duration

14 MIN

Language

French

Country

Quebec

Year

2019

Rain or shine, it’s always good a DRAMATIC COMEDY about PARENTHOOD
Diffusion completed
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Synopsis

A park in Montreal. A bright summer day, children playing, happy families. Manu is meeting Elo, his 9 years old daughter he hasn't seen in years...

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Direction

Grégoire Bénabent

I was born in Paris and studied literature. In my twenty’s I decided I would become a filmmaker. I
was first hired as a film critic by several magazines (Positif, repérages, Chronicart), and became also
a script reader for Canal+.
I started directing shorts (Humaine, 2005, Refuge, 2008) which were broadcast on french tv, and
selected in many festivals in France and abroad. In 2011, I went to New York with my wife and co-director
Marie-Pierre Jaury and we both directed a documentary about the reconstruction of
Ground Zero (Memoryland, french TV Public Senat, and Japanese TV NHK). I directed another
documentary for french TV. La fumée vous dérange, 2012, Arte.
I wrote a script for long feature film, Paul et Louise, which won the Beaumarchais fund in 2016.
In 2017 I went to live in Montreal, Canada, for a year with my family, directing, among other things,
a documentary about a men talking group Paroles d’hommes.
In Montreal, I made a new short, Sunny afternoon, which I’ve completed back in France in November
2018. I started my own production company, les films de la Main gauche, based in Paris
and bound to produce shorts, documentaries, and long feature films.

Music

Birds of paradise

Editing

Bénabent Grégoire

Sound mixing

Arnaud Rolland

Sound designer

Guillaume Daoust

Cinematographer

Jonathan Brisebois
François Messier Rheaut

Screenplay

Bénabent Grégoire

Original Title

Sunny Afternoon