François Lunel

Born in Paris in 1971, François Lunel is a film maker, writer and stage director. In 1992 he traveled to besieged Sarajevo and made two fiction films, La Promenade and Jours Tranquilles à Sarajevo, tributes to the Bosnian cultural resistance. He continued his filmmaking career in 1996, directing several documentaries for cinema and television, while also teaching at the University of Marne-la-Vallée and later at La Fémis. Between 1998 and 2012, he directed around ten films, both fiction and documentary. In 2010 he published Keremma, a novel set in Finistère, with Riveneuve Editions.

François Lunel took part in the Annual Selection of Groupe Ouest for the development of his feature film Rochus, co-written with Damir Mujagić. The project was also selected for La Sélection in 2015, an event co-organized by Groupe Ouest and the Gan Foundation for Cinema.

Rochus

Annual Selection 2014, Selection 2015

Tanguy Le Sech, 75, lives in a small village in Brittany. He is a nationalist and a veteran of the Algerian War. His only passion is river fishing. One day, exasperated by the rowdiness of his new neighbours, Tanguy acquires Rochus, a lively and energetic dog he adopts from a kennel. The arrival of Rochus changes his life—and the lives of those around him. When Tanguy loses Rochus after a day of fishing, he is convinced that the villagers are responsible. Seeking revenge, he decapitates the statue of Joan of Arc in the village square.