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Based on the graphic novel “Baume du Tigre” by Lucie Quéméner (Éditions Delcourt) France Culture Prize / Selection of the Angouleme Festival 2021
Bourse SSA – Société Suisse des Auteurs pour l’adaptation
Sélection au 17ème Forum de Namur de production (37ème Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur 2022)
Avec le soutien de l’Office fédéral de la culture (OFC) / MEDIA Desk Suisse
Aide à l’écriture CNC – Fonds images de la diversité – décembre 2022
En coproduction avec Fast Prod, Paris
BAUME DU TIGRE
TIGER BALM
François Yang
Fiction – Drame
Quand Emma, 17 ans, annonce à son grand-père qu’elle veut étudier la médecine plutôt que reprendre le restaurant familial, elle se heurte à un refus brutal. Avec ses sœurs, elle déclenche une grève qui plonge la famille dans la crise et la force à fuir vers la ville, en quête de liberté.
When 17-year-old Emma tells her grandfather that she wants to study medicine rather than take over the family restaurant, she is met with a brutal refusal. Together with her sisters, she starts a strike that plunges the family into crisis and forces them to flee to the city in search of freedom.
Francois Yang was born in Fribourg (Switzerland) and graduated from the cinema department of ECAL (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne / University of Art and Design, Lausanne), in 2003. He completed his education at la Fémis (French national film school) and earned a master’s degree in cinema from University de Paris VIII. After having directed several short film, among other “One magic evening”, he directed his first feature film “The Soul of the Tiger“, which premiered at the Zurich film festival.
He has also directed several documentaries, which were shown on primetime on the Swiss television channel, on TV5 Monde, France Television, RTBF and among others, in the festival “Visions du Réel”, in Nyon.
Filmographie /Filmography (selection)
2019: Heidi en Chine (Heidi in China) – documentary, 80′
2016: L’âme du tigre – (The Soul of the Tiger) – feature 91′
2014: Mooncake – short film 14′
Credits
Réalisation : François Yang
Scénario : François Yang, Marcel Beaulieu, Paul Choquet
Consultantes : Fadette Drouard, Malou Briand
Production : Xavier Grin