Laetitia Carton

Director

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Clermont-Ferrand, Laetitia Carton exhibited her work in contemporary art venues as soon as she left school (at the Abbey of St-André in Meymac, the Centre d'Arts Plastiques in St Fons, the Creux de l'enfer in Thiers, the Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris, the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Lyon...).

She encountered creative documentary during her post-graduate studies at the Lyon School of Art. She then decided to take a different path and attended the master's degree in documentary filmmaking at Lussas (University of Grenoble).

Her graduation film, D'un chagrin j'ai fait un repos, was widely distributed and allowed her to travel as far as Cuba, where it won an award.

In 2009, she made her first film for television, La Pieuvre, about Huntington's disease, a genetic neurodegenerative disease that is decimating her family.

At the same time, she wrote and started shooting a film with the Deaf community in 2006, about sign language, which she completed nine years later. J'avancerai vers toi avec les yeux d'un Sourd (I will walk towards you with the eyes of a Deaf person) was released in January 2016.

In the meantime, she directed for the cinema the portrait of her friend Edmond Baudoin, a comic book author, which was released in September 2015.

Her latest film for the cinema, Le Grand Bal, attracted over 57,000 spectators in France after an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. The film has been nominated for the César for best documentary in 2019.

FILMOGRAPHY

2020 - Letter to Vichy - 52' - SaNoSi Productions and France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

2019 - Polychromie - 52' - SaNoSi Productions and France 3 Région Centre-Val de Loire

2018 - Stroll under the lights of Chartres - 26' - SaNoSi Productions and France 3 CVL region

2018 - Le Grand Bal - 86' - SaNoSi Productions - official selection - Cannes Film Festival 2018, nominated for the César for best documentary 2019 -

2015 - J'avancerai vers toi avec les yeux d'un sourd - 105 minutes - Kaleo Films - released in cinemas on 20 January 2016

2015 - La Visite - le Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - 22' - SaNoSi Productions Best Short Film Award at the Wondercourt Fesministival, Paris, 2016

2015 - EDMOND/ a portrait of Baudoin - 80 ' - Kaleo Films - released in cinemas on 30 September 2015 Grand prix at Traces de vies festival

2010 - La Pieuvre - 89' - produced by Idéal Audience 2005 - From a sorrow I made a rest
Jury Prize and Audience Prize at the festival A nous de voir

2005 - D'un chagrin j'ai fait un repos - 18' - produced by Idéal Audience
Audiovisual training prize at the Traces de vies festival
Documentary prize at the international film festival Cinepobre de Gibara (Cuba)

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The grand ball

09/08/2024 à 00:00

France - 2018 - 89 minutes - Original version with English subtitles
It's the story of a ball. A big ball. Every summer, more than two thousand people come from all over Europe, to a small town in the French countryside. During 7 days and 8 nights, people dance again and again, lose the notion of time, defy their fatigue and their bodies. It turns, it laughs, spins, cries and sings. And life pulses.
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The Visit - The Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris

26/04/2023 à 00:00

France - 2019 - 24 minutes - Original French version - English subtitles, AD - This is the story of an encounter. Julie's encounter with modern art. Julie's and mine. With Julie Du Chéné Selections: Etats Généraux du Documentaire de Lussas (2015), Festival Traces de Vies de Clermont-Ferrand (2015), Feministival Paris (2016), Journées Internationales des films sur l'Art au Musée du Louvre (2016), 10èmes rencontres du Film Documentaire Mellionnec (2016), RISC- Rencontre Internationales Sciences et Cinéma de Marseille (2016), Festival du Film d'Education d'Evreux (2016) Awards: Best Short Film Award at Wonder Courts Féministival 2016

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The Grand Ball (French version)

31/10/2023 à 10:00

France - 2018 - 99 minutes - French version
It's the story of a ball. A big ball. Every summer, more than two thousand people come from all over Europe, to a small town in the French countryside. During 7 days and 8 nights, people dance again and again, lose the notion of time, defy their fatigue and their bodies. It turns, it laughs, spins, cries and sings. And life pulses.
Support the new film of Laetitia Carton : la petite classe

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The visite (Collection) - French Trailer

13/07/2023

Trailer of La Visite
La Visite (The Visit) is a collection of short films in which ten writers-directors with a singular vision offer us ten encounters with people with mental disabilities in ten major cultural venues. Each film tackles a range of subjects, both big and small, that resonate with these places.

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The great ball - French Trailer

"It's the story of a ball. A great ball. In the Bourbonnais bocage, in July, for over 27 years, rain, sleet, wind or shine, we dance, we dance, for seven days and seven nights. There are over two thousand of us, all generations, from infants to octogenarians. Many languages are spoken. We come from all over. It spins, it twirls, it stomps, it trances, it sweats, it laughs, it cries, it sings, it plays, it oozes, it lives. I dance too. But this year, I'm also going to make a film. To try to share and make this whirlwind visible to those who don't know it. The film, too, like a whirlpool. Dance, dance, hold on, eat, dance, dance, dance, sleep, dance, dance, listen to your body, how tired you are, drink, dance, don't miss a thing, sometimes it's even better when you've gone to bed, dance, meet each other. To film the glances, the exchanges, the "between", the community, the sum of its singularities, the stammering, nascent movement, the agility, the simplicity of the experienced, the letting go, the liberties taken, the gentle madness, the great humanity that unfolds, the joy that lights up the faces, the expectations on the chairs, the love that is born, the fatigue that falls, the bonds that tighten and keep us standing. To show how different it is, when we finally dare to touch, when we look at each other, when we live together. And life pulsates.

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Polychromy - French Trailer

At first it was a Gallo-Roman City , then a medieval capital town and then a political capital town… And now, Chartres has been for the last fifteen years an international capital town of light, So I wanted to know more about this high renown place in french history. I patiently followed the breadcrumb trail that started to appear after a few encounter. It led me to to the heart of Chartres. Polychromie, all the colors that make Chartres, colors that gives this city life and beauty. Its a beautiful reminder of Chartres’s history and spirituality.

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Walk around the illuminated Chartres - French Trailer

For the past fifteen years, every evening from April to October, the city of Chartres has been decked out in a thousand lights to showcase its architectural heritage. And every year, the show is renewed. As darkness falls over the town, Arnaud the troubadour and Barth, a student from Burkina Faso, meet. They decide to wander together and are seduced by the magic of light.

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Polychromy

France - 2019 - 52 minutes - Original French version At first it was a Gallo-Roman City , then a medieval capital town and then a political capital town… And now, Chartres has been for the last fifteen years an international capital town of light, So I wanted to know more about this high renown place in french history. I patiently followed the breadcrumb trail that started to appear after a few encounter. It led me to to the heart of Chartres. Polychromie, all the colors that make Chartres, colors that gives this city life and beauty. Its a beautiful reminder of Chartres’s history and spirituality.

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Walk around the illuminated Chartres

France - 2019 - 25 min - Original French version For the last fifteen years , every night from April to October, the city of Chartres starts to be illuminated to show its architectural patrimony, And every year it starts over . When the sun goes down and as the shadow of the night takes over the little french town. Arnaud the troubadour and Barth the Burkinabe student meet up, they decide to wander around the town together and to let themselves be seduced by the magical power of Chartres illumination’s.

      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      

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