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MANTA RAY

Anton Bialas
France, 2022
30 min

Three characters live out their own insurgencies in contemporary Paris, in personal rebellions through which they escape beyond the rules of an increasingly hostile city.

Anton Bialas’ Paris is not a romantic place for lovers anymore: bordering on dystopia, the director uses documentary footage to create the impression of a city full of lonely and desolate people. Kamilya, Ghost Rider and Gilles search for their own gaps in this urban picture undermined by protests and the bitterness of its inhabitants, over which hovers the almost authoritative insistence of the voice in the metro, advising us to take care of ourselves and the others. Whether it’s a protest-show with fireworks or some poetry lyrics written on the front page of Libération, it’s impossible for the viewer not to remember afterwards, when the film is over, the feast of exotic fruits bought from the supermarket, or the Seine’s beauty while filmed with a GoPro. (Andreea Chiper)

Date and Location

30th of September, 20:00, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Anton Bialas

Anton Bialas was born in 1990 in Paris, from a Swedish mother and a German father. He pursues cinema studies at Paris III La Sorbonne. His first film, Behind our Eyes (2018), has been selected at the FID Marseille, and has then been screened in many international festivals. In 2020, his film At the Entrance of the Night premiered in the Berlinale official competition. The Blackbird Group Noir (2021) was selected in the official competition of the Visions du Réel in Switzerland, as well as in the Brive medium-length film Meetings.

  • Technical sheet
  • CAST: Kamilya Kuspanova, Michaël Blin, Hadrien Mossaz, Nikita Dmitriev, Julia Joubert
  • SCREENWRITER: Anton Bialas
  • PHOTOGRAPHY: Julia Mingo
  • SOUND: Benjamin Sylvestre, Lucas Doméjean, Victor Praud
  • EDITING: Gabriel Gonzalez
  • PRODUCER: Marthe Lamy
  • PRODUCTION: Apaches films

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