Forever Young

Les Amandiers

63rd TIFF: Greek Premiere

It’s the end of the 80s in Paris, and a young troupe of comedians has just been admitted to Les Amandiers, the prestigious theater school headed by Patrice Chéreau. They set out in life and in their early career. Along the way, they will learn, act, love, fear, live to the fullest, and also experience their first tragedy. The filmmaker and actress's semi-autobiographical look to acting and her love letter to a friend and colleague long gone, eschews bigger questions for more pressing emotions, channeling her mercurial performance style and feisty screen presence through a screen language that asks if nostalgia is really all that it's supposed to be.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Script: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnès de Sacy

Cinematography: Julien Poupard

Editing: Anne Weil

Sound: François Waledisch, Sandy Notarianni, Emmanuel Croset

Actors: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Sofiane Bennacer, Louis Garrel, Micha Lescot, Clara Bretheau, Noham Edje

Production: Ad Vitam Production, Agat Films

Producers: Alexandra Henochsberg, Patrick Sobelman

Co-production: Bibi Film, Arte France Cinéma

Co-producers: Angelo Barbagallo

Costumes: Caroline de Vivaise

Production Design: Emmanuelle Duplay

Make Up: Caroline Philipponnat

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: France

Production Year: 2022

Duration: 125΄

Distribution in Greece: Weird Wave

Contact: Charades

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is an Italian-French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, A Castle in Italy, was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Italy, in the Piedmont region of Italy. Like her younger sister, Carla Bruni, she has settled in France. She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: Tickets (2005), a three-segment film directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach, and Crustacés et Coquillages, a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. Her debut film as a director, “It's Easier for a Camel...”, earned her two awards at the Tribeca Film Festival for Emerging Narrative Filmmaker and Best Actress in 2003. In 2007, Bruni Tedeschi directed Actrices, which won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.