37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Le Courage des oiseaux

Mathilde Profit

Next sessions

Fri 24/01
14h15
Centre de Congrès - Grand Angle
Read by Olga Milshtein and Florence Loiret Caille
Image Le Courage des oiseaux
Nina, 30, Françoise, 60, and Céline, 45, live in the same medium-sized town in eastern France. Their daily lives have been shattered by the news of the death of a fourth woman. They all knew her, well or not well. Over the course of a weekend her
disappearance brings each of them back as many wounds as it does buried desires.
Co-scénariste : Julie Debiton
Production : Apaches Films et la Pan Cinéma
© Aurélie Coudière
After working on a number of films as a scriptwriter, Mathilde Profit directed Un adieu (First Goodbyes) (winner of the acting award at Premiers Plans in 2020, Prix Jean Vigo 2020, nominated for a César in 2021) and Perdre Léna (shortlisted for a César 2025). She is currently working on her first feature film, Le Courage des
oiseaux
, selected at the Ateliers d’Angers in 2024 and co-produced by Apaches films and Pan Cinéma.

Julie Debiton is a screenwriter and graduate of La Fémis. She has written or co-written several short films, most recently Perdre Léna by Mathilde Profit. Le Courage des oiseaux is her third collaboration on a feature film.
Read by :
© Jean-François Robert
Florence Loiret Caille

Florence Loiret Caille made her debut in Érick Zonca’s short film Seule. She has made several films with Michael Haneke, Code inconnu (Code Unknown) and Le Temps des loups (Time of the Wolf), Claire Denis in Every Trouble Day, Vendredi soir, L’Intrus (The Intruder) and Les Salauds (Bastards), Jérôme Bonnell in Le Chignon d’Olga (Olga’s Chignon), J’attends quelqu’un (Waiting for Someone) and La Dame de trèfle (Queen of Clubs), and Sólveig Anspach in Queen of Montreuil and L’Effet aquatique (The Aquatic Effect). She also appeared in Xavier Gianolli’s Une aventure (Only the Night), Agnès Jaoui’s Parlez-moi de la pluie (Let’s Talk About the Rain), Zabou Breitman’s Je l’aimais (Someone I Loved), Sarah Leonor’s Au voleur (A Real Life), Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond’s La Petite Chambre (The Little Bedroom), Matthieu Rozé’s Azuro and Carine Tardieu’s Les Jeunes Amants (The Young Lovers). Her television credits include Le Bureau des légendes (The Bureau) and, more recently, La Maison alongside Lambert Wilson, Pierre Deladonchamps and Carole Bouquet. In 2024, she appeared in Stéphane Marchetti’s La Tête froide (Winter Crossing), Stéphane Demoustier’s Borgo and Lucie Prost’s Fario.

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Olga Milshtein

Olga Milshtein has appeared in Mes frères et moi (My Brothers and I) by Yohan Manca and L’Ȋle by Damien Manivel, released in 2023. She played the lead role in the short film Perdre Léna by Mathilde Profit, for which she received the Prix Jean Carmet du jeune espoir. This month she stars alongside Françoise Lebrun and Mathieu Amalric in Spectateurs (Filmlovers!) by Arnaud Desplechin.