A few minutes before shooting his father and his mother in cold blood, Benjamin Feller, an 18-year-old young man, apparently uneventful, sends his diary by mail to his literature teacher in which he confesses and explains his double murder. The choice to associate this woman with his act and to unwillingly take her in the fall, follows several months of an educational relationship that encouraged the students to write a diary. The teacher finds herself interrogated by the law, and soon confronted with her own doubts. What if her taste for a literature, haunted by the torments of the human soul, made her blind before the distress of her pupil and what was hidden behind the feverish prose he had made her read long before his crime?
Ursula Meier studied Film at the IAD in Belgium. Her short films’ and documentaries’ successes allowed her to get world-wide recognition. She was chosen to be part of Arte’s collection of TV movies MALE/FEMININE and directed, in 2002, STRONG SHOULDERS. In 2008, her movie HOME was part of the Official competition in Cannes and received several distinctions and awards, including three French César awards. SISITER took the Silver Bear in Berlin, competed for the Independants Spirit Awards and Kacey Mottet Klein was nominated for Best Male Newcomer’s César. This film, just as HOME, was rewarded with three Quartz at the Swiss Film Award and represented Switzerland at the Oscars.
Filmography: 2017 - DIARY OF MY MIND 2011 - SISTER 2008 - HOME 2002 - STRONG SHOULDERS
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