Winter Crossing
France | 2024 | 92 mins | French
Dead of winter in the snow-covered Alps. To make ends meet, Marie. 45, smuggles cartons of cigarettes between France and Italy with the help of her lover, Alex, a border police officer. When she meets a young refugee named Souleymane, who will do anything it takes to join his little sister Marie, she gets caught up in a spiral that is far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined.
Director
Stéphane Marchetti is a director and screenwriter. His documentaries have been selected for numerous festivals in France and abroad, where they received multiple awards. His film “Rafah, One Year in the Gaza Strip,” co-directed with Alexis Monchovet, won the FIPA D’OR in 2007 and the ALBERT LONDRES Prize in 2008. Stéphane is co-director of the Aire Libre/Albert Londres graphic novel collection, which will be launched in 2024 by Editions Dupuis publishers. Winter Crossing, his first fiction feature film, was first written during a FEMIS screenwriting workshop in 2019 before being one of five selected for an Emergence Cinema Residency in 2021.
Cast & Crew
Director – Stéphane Marchetti
Producer – Bertrand Gore
Cinematographer – Sébastien Goepfert
Editor – Damien Maestraggi
Music – Adrien Casalis
Cast – Florence Loiret Caille, Saibo Balde, Jonathan Couzinie, Aurélia Petit,
Marie Narbonne, Philippe Frecon