
Louise Coulet
Louise
Louise is a young actress whose first film has been selected for several festivals. Remembering her first love with Dimitri, she decides to contact him again before she goes to Cannes. But time has passed, and their meeting testifies to the incomprehensibility between the two…

Louise

Dimitri

August 1914. Europe has mobilised. The Imperial German Army has executed its Schlieffen Plan, has ploughed through Belgium, and is now deep in France. The British Expeditionary Force is seeing its first action against the Germans. Skirmishes in open countryside are common, and both sides are still learning how a modern war could and should be fought. Two soldiers, one English, one German, both with lives and lovers at home they would rather not have left, find themselves facing each other, alone. Alone, except for the French girl, Françoise…

In this black-and-white minimalist short film, a man encounters his lost love in a metaphysical realm. Through symbolic elements like a dove, a fountain, and an angel sculpture, the film explores themes of love and loss. Their poetic conversation blurs the lines between reality and the transcendent. Inspired by ‘Hiroshima mon amour,’ the film invites viewers to interpret the enduring nature of love and the acceptance of loss.

It's Wednesday night in South London. Fatimah and Leon, two successful Black Brits, are coming to what should be the end of a good evening at a pop-up restaurant, except neither quite seems ready for the night to end. So they continue. A taxi ride into the heart of the city sees them hop around from place to place, crossing paths with friendly strangers as they meander through a night they wish could last forever, if only to avoid the inevitable conversation that awaits them.