Official Selection out of Competition | France | French | 136 min
Striving to be a great director, Etienne travels from his working-class home in Lyon to study cinema at the Sorbonne in Paris. He quickly falls in with two classmates: the cheerful and rather helpful Jean-Noël and the cocky, seductive Mathias who talks about movies all the time. But as they spend the year studying, they have to face friendship and love challenges as well as choosing their artistic battles.
Jean-Paul Civeyrac, born in Saint-Etienne in 1964, is an accomplished filmmaker and film teacher at La Fémis Film School. He made almost twenty films, features and shorts, often not making a clear distinction between reality and fantasy. Some of his works were screened at major film festivals, such as his adaptation of Anne Wiazemsky’s novel Hymne à L’Amour, All The Fine Promises (2003), which was awarded the Jean Vigo Prize; as well as Through the Forest (2005) and his graduation film at La Fémis, La vie selon Luc (1991). However, with A Paris Education, which had its world premiere this year at Berlinale’s Panorama section, Civeyrac will definitely reach a much deserved broader audience.
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