Louise Hémon
After studying literature and cinema, Louise Hémon joined the documentary workshop at La Fémis. She writes and directs short and medium-length films that are screened at international festivals and broadcast on Arte and Canal+. In duo with Emilie Rousset, she writes and directs plays shown at the Festival d’Automne, Centre Pompidou and T2G.
As a screenwriter and consultant to other filmmakers, she worked with Groupe Ouest to develop “L’Engloutie”, her first feature-length fiction film. A seminal experience, she went on to write the screenplay with Anaïs Tellenne, whom she met at the Annual Selection. Produced by Margaux Juvénal at Take Shelter, “L’Engloutie” is a winner of the CNC writers’ grant, the Bourse Beaumarchais-SACD and Emergence 2022.
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L’Engloutie
Annual Selection 2019
1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowbound hamlet on the remote edges of the French Alps. Despite the villagers’ mistrust, she is determined to shed light on what she sees as their dark beliefs. As she gradually becomes part of the community, a sensual vertigo begins to grow within her. Until the day an avalanche claims the life of a first mountain dweller.
