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Alex Anna

Alex Anna

Directing

Biography

Alex Anna is a director in love with cinematographic language and words in all their beauty. A queer and feminist filmmaker, she directed her first short film "The Fruit of Our Womb" in 2017 (as Laurie Mannessier), and her second short film "Scars" in 2020 (Premiere at TIFF 2020). She uses art to give a voice to silenced subjects.

Known For

I Love America
5.1

Lisa, a single woman, decides to take a chance on love again by catapulting her life from Paris to Los Angeles. Her children flew the coop and her famous, yet absent mother just passed, so Lisa needs a big change. She reunites with her best friend Luka, who found success in America but is struggling to find his own prince charming. Luka embarks on a mission to give Lisa a fresh start by creating a profile for her on a dating website.

I Love America

2022
The Lulus
6.2

August 1914. While the German army is gaining ground in the North of France, four boys aged 10 to 15, LUcien, LUcas, LUigi and LUdwig are left behind during the evacuation of their orphanage. Without the protection of Abbé Turpin and the schoolteacher Leutellier, the Lulus are now stranded on their own behind the enemy front line. Soon joined by LUce, a pretty young girl separated from her parents, they decide to reach the neutral country of Switzerland by all means possible... they embark on an adventure for which nothing and no one has prepared them!

The Lulus

2023
The Fruit of Our Womb
8.0

Andrea lives with her girlfriend Marie. Getting pregnant, and never having had sex with a man, Marie believes it might, in fact, be a miracle.

The Fruit of Our Womb

2017
Scars
8.0

Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming.

Scars

2020
Apollo
5.6

Apollon is a teenager hung up by the social ideals of masculinity. He fantasizes about having the perfect body - complete with big beefy muscles and a big banana.

Apollo

2016
Made of Flesh
8.0

With a touch of blush and a few drops of lip gloss, Lucie is getting ready to start her training day to become a hostess at a motor show. A lifelong car enthusiast, she has the secret hope of being noticed by the prestigious EBBE brand.

Made of Flesh

2022
Create; survive
N/A

How can you continue to create when you can barely feed yourself? Alex Anna presents their film "Scars" at a sunlit festival, but behind their apparent success hides a ceaseless fight with their own mind. Expressing the brutality of loneliness through a poetic act of cinematography, Create; survive confronts our virtual and public identities against the intimate reality of depression.

Create; survive

2024