38th edition
17-25 january 2026

L'Origine de la tendresse

Alain-Paul Mallard

Image L'Origine de la tendresse
France
1999 Fiction 33 min
Elise, a solitary and silent woman, works as a guard in a museum. Not much happens in her life, and in a life where nothing happens, every instant has meaning.
With : Emmanuelle Gabet, Alain Rimoux, Odile Frédeval, William Touil
Screenplay : Alain-Paul Mallard
Image : Antoine Gianforcaro, Javier Ruiz
Sound : François Mereu
Music : Jérôme Coullet
Editing : Anthony Cordier
Alain-Paul Mallard was born in Mexico in 1970. He studied Hispanic literature in Mexico and Toronto, Canada and has published a narrative book, "Evocation de Matthias Stimmberg" (Heliopolis, Mexico, 1995). He is currently studying direction at The femis. Filmography: "Greetings from Jerusalem" (documentary, video,1998), "Nageurs" (fiction,1998), and "Les Beaumann et nous" (documentary, video, 1997).