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Léa Fehner
(1981) studied screenwriting at Femis. In 2000 she directed her first short film, Miros, which won the Audience Award at the Lorquin Festival. She went on to direct other shorts, including Dora, a 16mm documentary, and Sauf le Silence, which was selected at the Brest, Amiens (Audience Award), Angers, Clermont Ferrand, Toronto and Rio de Janeiro festivals, among others. Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront, one of the 15 projects of the 2008 Cannes Cinefondation Atelier, is her feature debut.
For me, the visiting room is, in essence, a fictional space. In a given time and place, subjected to extremely strict rules, men and women exchange and share a moment of their life stories. Life is condensed and, under duress, situations become increasingly potent, tense – and all of this without an ounce of privacy, intimacy. It was quite natural, therefore, that I chose this space as the meeting point for three stories, but also and above all as the space where three different journeys reach their culmination. Revealed during the unfolding of the tale, this place and the exchanges linked to it are, for me, the mainspring of the story’s dramatic tension. For this film has been conceived with a desire to create and offer to spectators powerful stories that have multiple curves and shifts of direction.
Léa Fehner
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