ALMATY INDIE FILM FESTIVAL
Rencontre
Overview
Rencontre recount a travel journal from the Mongolian steppes to a village of Bretagne by the Atlantic's shores.
Crossing 3 continents, from Ulaanbaatar to Le Pouliguen passing by Samarkand, Isfahan, Cairo or Sarajevo, through the Pamir's mountain range, the Gobi deserts and the Arabian's land.
From several solo travel experiences such as astonishment and fear, pain and love, encounters and solitude, Antonin Lechat will travel on a geographically emotional world map that will approach him to himself as the road brings our character to his origins.
Director Biography — Antonin Lechat
6 years ago, before starting a cinema school back in London, Antonin gets a month internship in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) at a local production company. The experience is very productive on both side, and the month internship becomes a year.
Thank to this experience, Antonin direct his first documentary in Mongolia where he discovers the society in full transition. Antonin works also on several project with lemonde.fr or the local Alliance Française. He helps also french TV to produce documentary in Mongolia.
Finally after 2 years staying in Mongolia, Antonin decide to travel back to France by land. This travel project becomes his new documentary project.
Director Statement
It's been years now, that I am leaving abroad (Australia, England, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan), and that I am studying on my own the history and the culture of those places. I strongly believing that encounter and understanding of another culture are an education essential in each man's life. Naturally after 24 months in Mongolia, the evidence of my experiences guided me towards such a project. It was the perfect timing to undertake it.
Credits
- Director
- Antonin Lechat
- Writer
- Antonin Lechat
- Producer
- Antonin Lechat
- Sound Engineer
- Arthur Béranger
- Editor & Writter Assistant
- Guillaume Quere
Specifications
- Original title
- Rencontre
- Project type
- Documentary, Experimental, Short
- Runtime
- 31 minutes 26 seconds
- Completion date
- December 1, 2016
- Production budget
- 7,500 EUR
- Country of origin
- France
- Countries of filming
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan
- Language
- French
- Shooting format
- Digital
- Aspect ratio
- 2:3
- Film color
- Color
- First-time filmmaker
- No
- Student project
- No
- Digital Cinema Package
- Unavailable
Awards & Festivals
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