Synopse
A satire about family and refugees mixes private life and political reality in a succession of larger and smaller crises. Together with a German colleague, Nathalie Adler is in Sicily on behalf of the EU to organize a visit by Macron and Merkel to a refugee camp. Here, she meets her son who as a radical activist upsets not only his mother’s professional plans. The film takes a hard look at the instrumentalization of refugees for political purposes and the neuroses of the protagonists in government offices and NGOs.
Regie
LIONEL BAIER (*1975 in Lausanne) started out managing cinemas before becoming head of the film institute at the Lausanne Art School. His best-known films include Longwave (2013) and Vanity (2015). Continental Drift (South) ran in the section Quinzaine de Réalisateurs at Cannes.
Info
Original Title: La dérive des continents (au sud)
International Title: Continental Drift (South)
Category: Feature
Section: Veto!
Version & Subtitles: French OV with English subtitles
Director: Lionel Baier
Screenplay: Lionel Baier, Laurent Larivière
Cast/Protagonists: Isabelle Carré, Théodore Pellerin, Ursina Lardi, Tom Villa, Ivan Georgiev, Adama Diop, Elisabeth Owona, Indri Shiroka, David Coco, Mario Opinato, Massimo Cagnina, Sebastiano Tinè, Nicolò Prestigiacomo, Maria Isabella Piana, Rosalinda Musumeci, Maria Antonietta Scornavacca, Nicolas Roussi
Production country: France, Switzerland
Year of Production: 2022
Length: 84 min
Producer: Pauline Gygax, Max Karli
Production company: Bandita Films
Sound: Patrick Becker, Lucas Lebart, Raphaël Sohier, Stéphane Thiebaut
co-production company: Les Films du Losange
World Sales: Raphaëlle Quinet, Les Films du Losange
