Bernard Bellefroid

Bernard Bellefroid, a graduate from the INSAS, began his career documenting reality. In 2005, he traveled to Rwanda for his first documentary Rwanda, The Hills Speak, giving voice to genocide survivors and their perpetrators, painting a portrait of a traumatized society in reconstruction. In 2007, he filmed inside a prison, exploring the daily lives of inmates and their difficult relationships with their children. In 2008, he turned to fiction with The Boat Race (La Régate), directing Sergi Lopez and Thierry Hancisse in a father-son drama marked by both violence and love.

In 2012, he returned to the Groupe Ouest to develop his first fiction feature Melody, co-written with Carine Zimmerlin and in collaboration with Anne-Louise Trividic. The film was supported through the Annual Selection and by the Breizh Film Fund.

Melody

Sélection Annuelle 2012, Breizh Film Fund 2015

Co-written with Carine Zimmerlin

To afford the hair dressing salon of her dreams, young Melody—born to an unknown mother—agrees to carry the embryo of Emily, a high-powered executive recovering from uterine cancer. What begins as a transactional arrangement evolves into a complex bond : both nurturing and tense, maternal and sisterly. The vital connection between them brings out the maternal figure in each other.