International Feature Competition

La Vénus d'Argent

Spirit of Ectasy

Swiss Premiere

Héléna Klotz

France

SHATTERING THE GLASS CEILING

2023, 95'

VO. French

ST. English

With

Claire Pommet, Niels Schneider, Sofiane Zermani

In presence of Héléna Klotz, Friday November 3.

A young girl is set to smash the glass ceiling of her social class and create a future for herself. A heroine for our times played by the singer-songwriter Pomme, acting alongside the rapper Fianso.

For this film, the filmmaker undertook documentary research into the world of finance, setting up fake meetings with high-level traders to learn their body language and their clinical secret vocabulary. The choice of Pomme for the lead allowed the artist and singer-songwriter to use her personal experience in the highly masculine world of the music industry to construct this portrait of a modern heroine. In this coming-of-age tale, a young woman, brought up in her father's police barracks, dreams of becoming a trader. She reinvents herself at will, resolutely free as the air. It is a quest for the self, a tale of determination and non-binarism. The soundtrack is by Ulysse Klotz.
Gaëlle Vidalie

Direction

Héléna Klotz

Screenplay

Héléna Klotz, Noé Debré, Emily Barnett

Image

Victor Seguin

Editing

Julien Lacheray

Sound

Dana Farzanehpour

Music

Ulysse Klotz