Ma belle gosse (2013)
Directed by Shalimar Preuss

Film Synopsis

Maden is an ordinary-looking seventeen year old who is contentedly spending her summer holidays on the sunny island of Ré.  She divides her time between her bedroom and the beach, with her large family consisting of numerous cousins constantly all around her.  Nearby, there stands a prison - an unmistakably masculine totem that exerts a strange fascination over the teenager.  Unbeknown to her father, Maden has been corresponding with one of the prison inmates.  It is torment for her to wait for the post each day, expecting clandestine missives from her secret confidant.  At times, she cannot help feeling like a prisoner herself, trapped in a sort of protective cocoon that becomes increasingly oppressive.  In a few years' time things will be very different - maybe...