38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Les Murs porteurs

Cyril Gelblat

Image Les Murs porteurs
France
2007 Fiction 1h32
Frida, an Ashkenazy Jewish woman of 75, is losing her memory and mixes the past with the present. Judith, her daughter, is divorced and has chosen not to work and stay at home and raise her children. Simultaneously she has to face her younger son leaving home and her mother's memory loss. Simon, Frida's son, shows an accurate sense for analysing society through his job as a journalist, but cannot grasp his daughter's blossoming or his mother's ageing. Frida comes back to her former apartment, thinking she would find her husband, who died some years before. She meets Manou, her tenant, who, at the age of 35, is waiting for an important professionnal promotion, while she is pregnant. The return to this flat, crossroads of their lives, will allow the characters of these three generations of a family, to discover each other and themselves.
With : Miou Miou, Charles Berling, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Anaïs Demoustier, Shulamit Adar
Screenplay : Cyril Gelblat, Thomas Marchand
Image : Jean-Marc Fabre
Sound : Erwan Kerzanet, François Musy
Music : Ali N. Askin
Editing : Emmanuelle Castro, Thomas Marchand
Production : Delante Films, Alwine Deleule et Caroline Adrian // 9 rue du château d'eau, 75010 Paris, France // Tel : +33 1 43 66 22 66 / Fax : +33 1 43 66 23 45 // Email : delante@delantefilms.fr
Cyril Gelblat has already made two shorts. The first, Ages ingrats in 2002, selected at the Fipatel in Biarritz, went to several festivals in France. The second, Le Ballon prisonnier, in 2001, was selected in Clermont-Ferrand and also other festivals. Les Murs porteurs is his first feature, and he also wrote the screenplay.