French Film Festival – Short Film Selection
Alice Vial/France/24:00/Drama/2014
Eight-year-old Elisa lives alone with her mother Jeanne, in a small isolated village of the French Alps. The little girl suffers from her mother’s absence as Jeanne works every night in a bar in town. Elisa tries to fill her loneliness by constantly wearing a wolf hand puppet.
Director : Alice Vial
Alice Vial was born in 1986 in Paris. She has written and directed three short films: The Man who knew a lot, (which was broadcast on French TV), French it up! and Wolf Head. Alice co-wrote a feature, The Innocents, directed by French director Anne Fontaine. Alice is currently writing a new feature.