Mélissandre Carrasco
Directing
Biography
After studying literature and film, Mélissandre Carrasco joined the editing section of CinéFabrique in 2016. She has completed several projects, including her graduation film En apnée, which premiered at the Écrans Mixtes festival in 2020. She was also assistant editor on Tout s’est bien passé (Everything Went Fine) by François Ozon and L’Innocent (The Innocent) by Louis Garrel. She then joined the CinéFabrique incubator. Her short film Contre le silence was selected for the Off-Courts festival in Trouville. She is currently developing several short films with Les Films des Turbulents, as well as directing music videos for artists.
Known For
Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.
The Innocent
1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fate.
No Chains, No Masters
A playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche – marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss. Through the eyes of citizens, filmmakers and artists, the film reconstructs a fragmented history in a country without a national archive, celebrating creative expression as both resistance, renewal and a way to preserve memory.
Do You Love Me
Marguerite and Coline fall in love at their local swimming pool, where they kiss for the first time. The stopwatch starts and there already is not much time left. Hold your breath depicts five pictures, five memories, five phases of their story.
Hold Your Breath
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Contre le silence
Marguerite is 16 and dreams of becoming an Instagram influencer. She meets up with Louis, who she met on social media, to spend the holidays with him and his friends. It’s summer, it’s hot, they’re having fun, Marguerite is in love and wants to have the best summer of her life.