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LEA TRIBOULET
SOFIA B. DIDN’T SLEEP wELL
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Intention
Sometimes, one reacts by withdrawing from the world
- by closing doors. It’s an instinct for survival, to protect
oneself. And it’s difficult to get out of. When you grow
up without family, when you have to face a hostile environment,
you learn to build yourself alone, without
any love.
Sofia never had a family, she is an outsider but she
wants to change her life. She is looking for her own
family. The most important question for Sofia is how
she will be able to relate to other human beings. Meeting
this man, Bernardo, and her grandmother is a turning
point for her.
FRANCE
The script focuses on the confrontational relationship
between two women of two different generations; how
they evolve, how they tame each other. It shows the
evolution of Sofia’s mental state. The script was built
as a progression, with cuts, passages and pieces of
dialogue. For the set, I have in mind industrial mining
towns. They are empty, lifeless. Time seems to have
stopped. The city is cold and oppressive in contrast
with the upheavals of the characters’ inner lives. In this
environment, Sofia changes and so do her relationships
with others.
Synopsis
16-year-old Sofia is a boarding school pupil. Solitary
and distant, abandoned by her parents, she has an inner
visible force, ready to explode. One day she can’t
stand it anymore and decides to run away.
She goes to visit the only person she has an address
for, a grandmother she never met. When she arrives,
the old woman tells her to go away but Sofia decides
to stay and take advantage of the situation. She imposes
her presence but the old woman rejects her.
Sofia realizes that she is looking for her own family.
In this little industrial town of eastern France, Sofia
meets Bernardo, an older Italian worker, and they begin
to pass time together without any expectations.
Step by step, he begins to want to take care of her.
In parallel, Sofia and her grandmother begin to tame
each other but it’s not easy.
When Bernardo must go back to Italy he asks her to
go with him. Sofia cares about them both. She has the
possibility to leave but also the possibility to stay. She
has to make a decision.
PRODUCTION FACTS
SHORT FICTION – APPROxIMATE
TIME : 20 MINUTES
“How to confront
yourself and relate
to others?”
Director Biography
Léa Triboulet was born in 1987 in the
south of France. During her studies at the
Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of
Strasbourg and her Erasmus exchange
in Estonia, she practiced set design, photography
and made her first short films.
She graduated with a Master’s degree in
2010. In parallel to her directing activities,
she works in set design both for cinema
and for the theatre company Le théâtre
destinerrant. All of these experiences, as
well as her trips to Eastern Europe and
other countries, have improved her artistic
work. She has a poetic and contemplative
approach to cinema; a cinema of contrasts,
silence, empty spaces, waiting and
loneliness but also of hope, movements
and contradictory feelings.
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