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Where life begins (Tu choisiras la vie)

Where life begins (Tu choisiras la vie)

original title:

Tu choisiras la vie

italian title:

Alla vita

directed by:

Stéphane Freiss

cast:

Lou De Laâge, Riccardo Scamarcio, Pierre-Henry Salfati, Astrid Meloni, Nicola Rignanese, Coraly Zahonero, Luigi Diberti, Fiorenza Tessari, Anna Sigalevitch, Natacha Krief, Jérémie Galiana, Anaël Guez, Max Huriguen, Haïm Vital Salfati, Liv Del Estal

screenplay:

Stéphane Freiss, Audrey Gordon, Caroline Deruas, Laure Deschenes

cinematography:

Michele Paradisi

editing:

Aline Hervé

set design:

Isabella Angelini

costume design:

Florence Emir

music:

Giovanni Mirabassi

producer:

Marco Cohen, Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Fabio Conversi

production:

Indiana Production, BaBe Films, with the support of Apulia Film Commission

distribution:

Vision Distribution [Italy], Moving Story Entertainment [Australia], HBO Europe [Bosnia and Herzegovina], Beta Film [Bulgaria], HBO Europe [Bulgaria], Menemsha Films [Canada], HBO Europe [Croatia], HBO Europe [Czech Republic], JHR Films [France], HBO Europe [Hungary], Playhouse [Israel], HBO Europe [Moldova], HBO Europe [Montenegro], Moving Story Entertainment [New Zealand], HBO Europe [North Macedonia], HBO Europe [Poland], HBO Europe [Romania], HBO Europe [Serbia], HBO Europe [Slovakia], HBO Europe [Slovenia], RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera [Switzerland], Menemsha Films [United States]

world sales:

Vision Distribution [Italy]

country:

Italy/France

year:

2022

film run:

100'

format:

colour

release date:

16/06/2022

festivals & awards:

An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in Calabria for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons. Here Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi’s daughter, who is tired of the constraints imposed by her religion. Through this relationship, Esther will understand the importance of freedom and find her path, and, in the same way, Elio will find the peace he had lost for a long time.