Simon Rieth
Directing
Biography
Simon Rieth was born in Paris in 1995 and grew up in Montpellier. By the age of 26 he had already made 6 short films (Feu mes frères, Saint-Jean, screened at Premiers Plans, Sans amour, whose screenplay was read at the Festival in 2018, Marave Challenge...) which all had screenings and won awards in dozens of festivals, notably the BFI Future Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, the MECAL Barcelona IFF and the FIFIB. His first feature, Nos cérémonies, produced by Les Films du Poisson, had its world premiere as the only French film in competition at the 2022 Critics' Week.
Known For
Whether it's bots in the bloodstream, a silent stranger by the road or even a single, all-consuming thought, death comes in peculiar forms in this wildly creative collection of shorts, offering five gruesome tales of the strange and the unnatural.
Unnatural Causes
Vincent is involved in the making of a video game called Soulkeeper in which he plays the main character, a knight that came back from the dead. For his first day on the set, he's being followed by a TV crew.
Pour pas être seul
As the summer's drawing to an end, Yanis and Noé, two teenagers who are both fans of the rapper Jul, meet up one last time to say goodbye before school starts again. For Yanis, this will be the last day of his childhood.
Saint Jean
Brothers Tony and Noé pass the long sweltering summer days playing games of chance and death… until the accident that will change their lives forever. Ten years later, now young adults and back in Royan, their paths cross that of Cassandra, their childhood love. But even after all this time, the brothers are still hiding a secret…
Summer Scars
The Tragic Movement of the Spheres is a mysterious object whose magic lies in revealing – through simple yet hypnotic images – nothing less than the cycle of life. The film is a testament to a mother-son love, but might also suggest to us that the seemingly meaningless and tragic movement of our existence finds its purpose in shared experience.
The Tragic Movement of the Spheres
Hugo and Lara's love story ends under a burning sun, during a weekend in the garrigue.
Gone Brothers
Villeveyrac, South of France. About thirty windmills dominate a vast burnt meadow. At the foot of one of them, Hugo and Anaïs have come to pay a last tribute to their childhood friend, Souleymane.
Without Love
A palace holds young people for eternity. Among them, Simon, Katia and Tony remember their last vacation.
Mother Behold Your Sons
It's been one year since prince Diong has mysteriously vanished. As a revolt is rumbling, his sister Pauline receives a message from him.
Diminishing Shine
For his birthday, Louison got an electromagnetic field detector.
Marave Challenge
6000 mensonges comes to the spectator as lightning in a clear sky. What starts as a recollection of prenatal images we are used to seeing suddenly becomes a dive into an unknown territory, in which the border between reality and fiction is no longer relevant. The result is a striking, haunting and powerful testimony of a devastating experience that is lived by many in silence, told in the most contemporary possible way.