It’s Raining In The House

31/10/2024 - quanly

Feature Film/ Belgium, France/ 80 min/2023

Director: Paloma Sermon-Daï

Screenwriter: Paloma Sermon-Daï

Director of Photography: Frederic Noirhomme

Production: Sebastien Andres, Alice Lemaire

Music Composer: Thomas Grimm-Landsberg (original music), Don Fuego, Blanko, Johnny Pacheco, Sawmal, Emodril (pre-existing music)

Production designer: Ladys Oliveira Silva

Cast: Purdey Lombet, Makenzy Lombet

Synopsis:

One hot and stormy summer by a popular lake, seventeen-year-old Purdey and her younger brother Makenzy walk the line between experiencing adolescence, finding love and fending for themselves. While Purdey works as a cleaner in a hotel complex, Makenzy earns money by robbing tourists. With a fractured home life leaving them to their own devices, they must learn to support each other in a surprisingly tender journey that chronicles what feels like the last summer of their youth.

Director’s biography:

Paloma Sermon-Daï was born in Namur, Belgium in 1993. She graduated in image studies at the Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles. Her graduation film Makenzy was selected at Visions du Réel in 2017. In 2020, she directed her first feature documentary, Petit Samedi. The film will have its world premiere at the Berlinale Forum 2020, and will win numerous award s: Bayard d’Or at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Prix diagonales at the Festival Premiers Plans Angers, Best Documentary Award at the Athens International Film Festival and Magritte for Best Documentary.