Petit Samedi
Paloma Sermon-Daï
Damien Samedi is 43 years old. When he was a child in his belgian village on the banks of the river Meuse, they called him the “Petit Samedi”. To his mother, Ysma, Damien is still her child, the one she never abandoned when he got caught up in drugs. A son who sought to protect his mother despite it all, a man attempting to liberate himself from his addictions and faces his past to get through.
Image : Frédéric Noirhomme
Sound : Thomas Grimm-Landsberg, Fabrice Osinski
Editing : Lenka Fillnerova
Mixage : Aline Gavroy
Etalonnage : Chiara Pontuali (Mikros)
Sound : Thomas Grimm-Landsberg, Fabrice Osinski
Editing : Lenka Fillnerova
Mixage : Aline Gavroy
Etalonnage : Chiara Pontuali (Mikros)
Production : Michigan Films
International sales: Heretic Outreach
International sales: Heretic Outreach
Paloma Sermon-Daï was born in Namur in Belgium in 1993. After studying Artistic Humanities at the conservatoire de Huy, in September 2016 she began a bachelor's degree in cinematographic technique at the Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles. There she directed 3 short films. Her graduation film, Makenzy 2016, was notably programmed at Visions du Réel. Her first feature film, Petit Samedi, has been presented this year at Berlinale Forum.