Leurs enfants après eux

August 1992. A stifling hot afternoon in a lost valley somewhere in Eastern France with its extinguished blast furnaces and its lake. Anthony, 14 years old, and his cousin kill boredom by the lake, meeting with Steph and Clem. For Anthony, this will turn out to be the summer of his first love, that which defines everything. The bittersweet moment in life marking the end of childhood and one’s coming of age. But there’s also Hacine, a young rebel from the neighbourhood. And a motorcycle he steals from Anthony, that turns their whole life upside down. Over the course of four crucial summers, the destinies of Anthony, Steph and Hacine intersect, collide and intertwine. And in the midst of all this turmoil, love will try to find its way...

Our intention was to make a raw, visceral and intense film. A lifelike capture of sociological truths that goes beyond documenting facts to infuse a breadth and depth of emotional impact in a way only cinema can.
Because Leurs enfants après eux, albeit taking place in a purely realistic arena, completely utilises the narrative freedoms the novel as a medium provides: the motorcycle theft that causes a family to implode, a gun wrapped in a dish rag, the Western-like showdown between Anthony and Hacine as sworn enemies...
Those are but a few of the eminently cinematic moments that called us to bring this novel to the silver screen.

PRODUCTION 1: CHI FOU MI PRODUCTIONS – Hugo Selignac
36 Rue du Mont Thabor
75001, Paris, France
info@chifoumiprod.com

PRODUCTION 2: TRESOR FILMS – Alain Attal
12 rue Barbette
75003, Paris, France
contact@tresorfilms.com

WORLD SALES: Charades - Carole Baraton
3 rue des Cottages
75018 Paris, France
sales@charades.eu

PRESS OFFICE: Paul Ockelford - PREMIER
2 – 4 Bucknall Street
WC2H 8LA, London, United Kingdom
LeursEnfants@premiercomms.com