Carlotta Verny

Initially a stage and film actress, Carlotta Verny has had many experiences abroad, driven by her love of languages and travel. She began her training at the age of 15 at the Orléans regional conservatory, then after a Master’s degree in literature applied to cinema at the Sorbonne, she studied with Eva Saint Paul in Paris, Gisella Burinato in Rome and at RADA and LAMDA in London. In 2011, she created a stage adaptation of Hermann Hesse’s novel “Le Loup des steppes”. The Italian short film “Child K” by Roberto De Feo, in which she plays the lead role and which is shot in German, won multiple awards and was shortlisted for the Oscars in 2016.

Welcome in North Korea

Annual Selection 2020

In a residential suburb of London where all the red-brick houses look alike, a strange embassy is hiding. On the outside, democracy; on the inside, North Korea. And North Korean diplomats don’t have it easy in this “bourgeois, capitalist” city-world. In the wake of Pyongyang’s latest nuclear tests, the embassy’s 52-year-old No.2, Seol, as efficient as he is anxious, decides to organize an ambitious art exhibition, inviting a delegation of artists to “restore” the country’s image. It’s the perfect opportunity to invite his son Tae-il, a painter, and bring the whole family together. But for Tae-il to come, the regime orders his daughter, So-hyun, a high-school student in love with a young Englishman, to be sent home. Seol imagines fleeing the regime with his wife and children.