EN FINANCEMENT
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)
Aide à l’écriture CNC – Fonds images de la diversité – décembre 2022
Coproduction : House on Fire, France
BAUME DU TIGRE
TIGER BALM
François Yang
Fiction – Comedie dramatique
Quand Edda, 17 ans, annonce à sa famille qu’elle veut poursuivre des études de médecine plutôt que travailler dans le restaurant familial, elle se heurte au refus catégorique de son grand-père. Avec ses sœurs, elle décide alors de s’enfuir vers la grande ville en quête de liberté…
When 17-year-old Edda tells her family that she wants to study medicine rather than work in the family restaurant, her grandfather rejects her choice. With her sisters, she decides to run away to the big city to find her 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, Paul Choquet
Consultante : Fadette Drouard
Production : Xavier Grin