Tender

Synopsis

On a hot summer day at the edge of the pond, Mia, 11, ask Hugo, 15 years old and already back from everything, to tell him his love story with Chaînes, lived a few months earlier at the same place.

Director Biography

Born in 1988, Isabel Pagliai is currently living and working in Paris. She studied literature and art history at the Université Denis-Diderot in Paris and graduated from Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts. Her cinematographic work, which combines fictional approach and documentary filming, revolves around themes of childhood and language. Her films have been selected in various international festivals (New Directors/New Films, Cinéma du Réel) and Isabella Morra (2015) won many prizes, including Best International Short Film at RIDM.