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Year of Production 2023

April in France

English title: April in France
Original title: April en France
German title: April in France
France, 2023

Director: Boaretto, David
Production company: Radical Films
Age recommendation: 8 years and up
Length: 77 min.
Film genre: Documentary

Synopsis:
April, a 5-year-old English girl, moves to Paris just before the first lockdown. She feels miserable, isolated in her Parisian flat and desperately wants to go back to London.
However, when the restric5ons ease, her father drives her to Labas5de d’Armagnac, a small medieval village in the South-West of France where her great- grandfather bequeathed them his house.
April is not much happier at first in the deserted village but slowly discovers it. She visits the cemetery where she thinks people are just asleep. On her great- grandfather’s grave she brings flowers, talks to him and strongly believes that he might eventually come back to be with her. She will make several wishes for this purpose, in church and also in the Pyrenees mountains, wai5ng for a falling star, as she has seen in Pinocchio.
In the meantime, she meets some of her great- grandfather’s friends. With them she will open to the world, discover her inner self and in turn she will transform the adults around her forever.

Festivals:
St. Louis IFF 2023, Thessaloniki IFF 2024, DocUtah IFF 2024 (awarded), ZagrebDox 2024, Palic IFF 2024, Cinemagic Belfast 2024, Olympia CFF Pyrgos 2024

World sales address/es:
Radical Films (FR)