Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

July 2 - 10, 2010

There Is No Direction
( There Is No Direction )

Colour, 35 mm
France, 2005, 30 min
Section: Documentary Films in Competition

Director: Sarah Bertrand
Screenplay: Sarah Bertrand
Dir. of Photography: Sarah Bertrand
Music: Frederique Ozanne
Designer: Sarah Bertrand
Editor: Sarah Bertrand
Producer: Sarah Bertrand, Fernando Sulichin
Production: Central Films
Sales: Central Films

Synopsis

This 30-year-old filmmaker takes her 8mm camera round the world and asks famous directors what it means for them to create film. Questions such as: Why do they make films? What does the cineaste feel? are answered by Abel Ferrara, Bernardo Bertolucci, Larry Clark, Emir Kusturica, Jonas Mekas, Spike Lee, Mike Figgis and many more in the field. This poetic mosaic with experimental ambitions proves that the best answers to these questions have to come from the nascent director herself.

About the director

Sarah Bertrand is a stage, film and television actress. Since the 1990s she has appeared in almost 20 TV films and series, and in several films for cinema, e.g. Le retour de Casanova (1991), Roulez jeunesse! (1992) and Sexes faibles! (1992). She also worked on a series of books on film, the first three of which were published in September 2004 in the Seuil edition with the title Des
nouvelles du cinéma. There Is No Direction is her first film.