Frédéric Ramade
Frédéric Ramade was born in Tours in 1968. Starting out in the visual arts, he experimented with different media and created performances and installations, then turned to filmmaking. He made numerous documentaries and short programmes for the Arte and France 5 TV channels in the fields of culture and education before directing his first films for the cinema. These films oscillate between fiction and documentary, humorously questioning our relationship with our environment.
His medium-length film Ode Pavillonnaire, released in 2008, a tender and ironic reflection on life in a suburban home, was well received by critics and screened at numerous festivals.
In 2010, Frédéric Ramade joined the ACID, the Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema).
Selected filmography :
La Voie Rouge – fiction – 40 mins
Ode Pavillonaire – fictional documentary – 50 mins
Le problème avec Tom – fiction – 21 mins
La libération de Chinon – documentary – 37 mins
It's a bit like in ‘The Three Little Pigs’: when we blow on the house, everything falls down but the foundations remain; it's the same here, we try new things, we see what holds up and what is really important to us. In three or four days, the projects evolved a lot: my second main character has changed, some themes have disappeared, etc.
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Le Pollinisteur
Sélection Annuelle 2016
In his late forties, with a round, gentle face and slightly receding red hair, Bernard Guillevinec has reduced his interactions with the world around him to a bare minimum devoting himself to his one passion : orchids. But one November evening, as he returns home with a new specimen found at his usual dealer, Bernard is faced with a major unexpected event : his neighbourhood is cordoned off following a gas explosion. Finding shelter in a gymnasium where the local council has set up an emergency reception centre, Bernard cannot bring himself to abandon his flowers as frost threatens, and so he decides to defy all the rules to keep his precious flowers safe. Along the way, he is taken in by a Vietnamese family, defies the police, learns to share his passion for flowers, and, above all, meets Camille, the feisty young psychiatrist who runs the emergency service. At the end of this extraordinary night, Bernard has made peace with the loss of his flowery bubble and is ready to embrace a new lease on life.
During my residency, I found two generous script consultants who helped us take a step back and start afresh. As writers, we are often alone. The Annual Selection brings us this rich collective dimension that cannot be found elsewhere. We have the perspectives of Jacques (Akchoti) and Marcel (Beaulieu), as well as those of other winning authors: ten perspectives, ten sensibilities that take us to new places.
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