Victor Jestin
Victor Jestin was born in Nantes in 1994. He studied film at the Ciné-sup preparatory school in Nantes, then at the European Conservatory of Audiovisual Writing in Paris, graduating in 2017. He has since worked as a writer and screenwriter. In 2019, he published his first novel, La Chaleur (Flammarion), which was nominated for the Médicis, Renaudot and Femina prizes and won several awards, including the Prix Femina des Lycéens. At the same time, he co-wrote La Cour (Albertine Productions) with Nacim Mehtar, a feature film directed by Hafsia Herzi for Arte (to be broadcast in 2022).
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Belle-Île
Sélection Annuelle 2022
One afternoon in August 1934, fifty-six boys escaped from the Belle-Île-en-Mer juvenile penal colony. They dispersed across the island. Desperate, the colony offers twenty francs to anyone who brings back a fugitive. Locals, fishermen, tourists—everyone joins the hunt…
« Belle-Île » is a fiction feature inspired by real events.