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"Love and Words" Prize: Festival Dakino, Documenta Madrid/2nd Jury Prize, Torino/Special Mention.
Official Selection: Vision du Reel/Nyon, Festival Femina/Rio, Ourense Intl. FF, Dakino, Paris Tout Court...
"Like Father, Like Daughter" Prize: Best Actress, Salomé Stévenin/ Vendôme, Bronze Bear/Ebensee.
Official Selection: Directors Fortnight/Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, Vendôme, Chicago, Sao Paulo...
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"Love and Words" is an unclassable film, based on an abandoned attempt to make a film about a woman in Yemen - abondoned to protect the women whose life was put in danger by the filming.
Both a narrative of a film that could not be made, a portrait of young Yemenites and a discussion on sexuality, intimate meetings with another woman, translator for the shooting. Sylvie Ballyot gives us a magnificent film and a truely rare and intelligent cinematic experience of pure beauty. 44 minutes/HD-Beta/French-Arabic
"Like Father Like Daughter" Julie pays a visit to her father in the South of France. He has lost a leg and lives alone in a house by the sea. Father and daughter don't know how to communicate, grope towards each other and sometimes make contact. They share the same desire for women. 20 minutes/HD-35mm/French
With: Salomé Stévenin, Bernard Blancan, Sophie Cattani
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Biography
A graduate of La fémis, Sylvie Ballyot first worked in experimental cinema: a video diary, documentaries, fiction shorts, including Alice, which has been popular on the festival circuit.
2007 : Love And Words Are Politics
2007 : Like Father, Like Daughter
2003 : Alice
2001 : Regarde-Moi
2000 : Tu crois qu’on peut parler d’autre chose que d’amour ?
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