38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Les Grands s'allongent par terre

Emmanuel Saget

Image Les Grands s'allongent par terre
France
2007 Fiction 1h22
Gena will soon be 16. But today her mother wants her to write a birthday card for her father. What can she write to him? She doesn't know him. Louis has received a birthday card from his daughter. She got the age wrong. But what does it matter whether he's 45 or 46 when everyone abandoned him a long time ago.
With : Victoire Thivisol, Laurent Suire
Screenplay : Emmanuel Saget
Image : Nathalie Durand
Sound : François Mereu
Editing : Christel Aubert
Production : Les Films Pelleas // 25 rue Michel Le Conte, 75003 Paris, France // Tel : +33 1 42 74 31 00 / Fax : +33 42 74 41 00 // Email : lesfilmspelleas@pelleas.fr
Distribution: Pyramide Films // 5 rue du Chevalier de Saint George, 75008 Paris, France // Tel : +33 1 42 96 01 01 / Fax : +33 1 40 20 02 21 // Email : distribution@pyramidefilms.com
International sales: Pyramide International // Tel : +33 1 42 96 02 20 / Fax : +33 1 40 20 05 51 // Email : pricher@pyramidefilms.com
Emmanuel Saget was born in 1970. After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Lyon and a degree in literature, he won a masters in 2000 from the image department of the école supérieure d'audiovisuelle in Toulouse, Le Mirail. After producing his own work in video and 16mm, he made his first 35mm short, Jèsu Dolar, which was selected for Premiers Plans in 2006. The screenplay of Les Grands s'allongent par terre, his first feature, was read last year at Premiers Plans, and it was with this project that Emmanuel Saget took part in the Emergence Summer University and the Ateliers d'Angers in 2006.