
Olivier Guerpillon
Writing
Known For

A refugee family in Sweden faces trauma after their youngest daughter falls into an unexplained coma when denied asylum. Parents struggle to find a cure, resilience tested amid difficult circumstances.
Quiet Life

Cata will see her summer vacation disrupted by the absurd and sudden death of her grandmother, which only she witnesses. Her grief shifts when she casually turns to play pretend, transforming into the deceased. What begins with a game of dress-up will blur the lines of reality and family roles.
Forastera

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.
Sound of Noise

A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic. Among them, “Two Fathers”, directed by Julia von Heinz (20’). After the death of his father, Hans-Michael von Heinz, the director finds out the truth about her parent true sexual identity. In order to know more, she starts emailing persons who got to know him over the last years, among them his closest friend, director Rosa von Praunheim.
Isolation

Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children, and a stimulating job. He's a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema-free and true to life-is precisely his reason for living. Yet his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is on its last legs.
Father of My Children

One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.
Beirut Hotel
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Les courants

Two people are stuck in a quarantine hotel during a deadly pandemic. Physical contact equals death, total isolation is required. Yet, it is human nature to seek togetherness. But what happens when you have to choose between love and life?
Glacier

Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
Costa Brava, Lebanon

In a small mining community in Northern Sweden, a group of youngsters about to take the leap in the adult age fight with themselves and the world around, while the ground literally trembles under their feet.
Broken Hill Blues

Kandia, an African women in her fifties who has lived in Sweden for 30 years, decides to move back to Gambia. Her son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in hip hop and is about to make a breakthrough, goes with her. Their encounter with their homeland, however, doesn't turn out the way they imagined. A warm, broad drama comedy about a universal theme: identity.
While We Live

The young punk band "The Rasperries" is touring Sweden in a worn-out van. Along the way, they meet Ava, a charming and intense goth girl who offers them an after-party - while pursuing a dark agenda of her own.
Virgo

The environmental movement gave the world free solar energy, but free solar energy created chaos in the economy. And chaos in the economy created war and destruction. Now our hero (played by Alexander Karim) must leave the apocalyptic planet to seek another future. Baker Karim creates a dystopian world with his Afrofuturism à la 2121.
Earthbound

Role-playing and multiple narrative layers are interwoven in a complex and philosophical film about learning, life perspectives, and facing profound changes.
Beneath the Pavement, the Beach

A drug dealer is hired to drive a young escort, Kadzo, to and from her clients. He falls in love with her and decides to rescue her from her situation, leading him into an increasing spiral fo troubles.