A Family (Une famille)

A mind-blowing documentary about a woman who, having experienced the brutality of incest, is determined to understand how her family have dealt with the situation. Award-winning French writer Christine Angot is invited for business to Strasbourg where her father had lived and died several years ago. It’s the city where she met him at the age of 13 for the first time, and he started to rape her. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera and knocks on her family’s doors to push them for clarity about their attitudes to her father’s crime that lasted so many years. A cinematographic journey challenging social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.

2024, 82 min, France, with Slovenian and English subtitles

A film by Christine Angot ; Produced by Bertrand Faire, Alice Girard; Dop Editig : Caroline Champetier, Pauline Gaillard; Sound: Emmanuel Croset, Caroline Reynaud, Charly Clovis; Postproduction coordinator Aude Cathelin; Production assistant  Ines Adjami; Production manager Lilah Girardot, Ambre Guillou; Production company LE BUREAU; In coproduction with RECTANGLE PRODUCTIONS, FRANCE 2 CINEMA; With the participation of CANAL +, CINÉ +, FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS, LE CENTRE NATIONAL DU CINÉMA ET DE L’IMAGE ANIMÉE; In association with COFILOISIRS; With the support of: LA FONDATION KERING, LA RÉGION ÎLE-DE-FRANCE; Organisation: City of Women, Kinodvor; Supported by: Institut français de Slovénie, Municipality of Ljubljana