Valérie Mréjen
Born in 1969 in Paris, Valérie Mréjen is a versatile creator. Novelist, visual artist, video artist, and filmmaker, she draws inspiration from subtle observations on everyday life. Valérie Mréjen started making films by directing several shorts. In 2002, she directed Pork and Milk for Arte, a documentary in which she filmed former Orthodox Jews who chose to leave their religious communities. Then came Valvert in 2008 about a psychiatric hospital in Marseille. In 2009, she directed French Courvoisier, then co-directed, with Bertrand Schefer, her first feature film Iris in Bloom, presented at the Directors' Fortnight and competing for the Caméra d'or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, she directed a series of short documentaries produced by the Parc de la Villette for the open-air cinema. Mréjen is currently making a documentary on the students of the École des Beaux-Arts. Simultaneously, she is working on the post-production of another documentary, Vous (les adolescents).
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Valvert
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Valvert is a psychiatric hospital in Marseille created in the mid-1970s, in a spirit of openness and free movement. The film, through an observation of the daily life, draws a portrait of the place by mixing interviews with caregivers and scenes of the patients' life. In an atmosphere that is far removed from the asylums model, this circulation highlights the different behaviors of ordinary mad...
La peau de l'ours
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When asked about language and learning, children respond about the meaning of certain words and expressions.
Pork and Milk
Shot in Tel-Aviv, this documentary is about Jews who were raised Ultra-Orthodox and then made the choice to become secular. For most of them, this decision meant severing ties with their families and communities and setting out alone to find their footing in an unfamiliar society.
Valvert
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Valvert is a psychiatric hospital in Marseille created in the mid-1970s, in a spirit of openness and free movement. The film, through an observation of the daily life, draws a portrait of the place by mixing interviews with caregivers and scenes of the patients' life. In an atmosphere that is far removed from the asylums model, this circulation highlights the different behaviors of ordinary mad...
La peau de l'ours
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When asked about language and learning, children respond about the meaning of certain words and expressions.
Pork and Milk
Shot in Tel-Aviv, this documentary is about Jews who were raised Ultra-Orthodox and then made the choice to become secular. For most of them, this decision meant severing ties with their families and communities and setting out alone to find their footing in an unfamiliar society.
