Louise Hémon
After studying literature and cinema, Louise Hémon joined the documentary workshop at La Fémis. She writes and directs short and medium-length films that are screened at international festivals and broadcast on Arte and Canal+. In duo with Emilie Rousset, she writes and directs plays shown at the Festival d’Automne, Centre Pompidou and T2G.
As a screenwriter and consultant to other filmmakers, she worked with Groupe Ouest to develop “L’Engloutie”, her first feature-length fiction film. A seminal experience, she went on to write the screenplay with Anaïs Tellenne, whom she met at the Annual Selection. Produced by Margaux Juvénal at Take Shelter, “L’Engloutie” is a winner of the CNC writers’ grant, the Bourse Beaumarchais-SACD and Emergence 2022.
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L’Engloutie
Annual Selection 2019
1899, in the Hautes Alpes. “Soudain” is a hamlet surrounded by snow on a remote mountain plateau. One stormy night, the inhabitants welcome Aimée, a young, dark-eyed schoolteacher who will stay over winter to teach the few children there. As she gradually blends into the life of the community, the first mountain dweller is buried in an avalanche…
