IT’S RAINING IN THE HOUSE
In the midst of a hot and stormy summer by a tourist lake, seventeen year old Purdey and her younger brother Makenzy walk the line between experiencing adolescence, finding love and fending for themselves. While Purdey works as a cleaner in a hotel complex, Makenzy makes some money by robbing tourists. Left to their own devices, they must learn to support each other in a surprisingly tender journey that chronicles what feels like the last summer of their youth.
Paloma Sermon-Daï was born in Namur, Belgium in 1993. She graduated in image studies at the Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles. Her graduation film Makenzy was selected at Visions du Réel in 2017. For her first feature documentary Petit Samedi (2020) which had its world premiere at the Berlinale Forum, she won numerous awards: Bayard d’Or at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Prix diagonales at the Angers European First Film Festival, Best Documentary Award at the Athens International Film Festival and Magritte for Best Documentary.
Cannes Film Festival – French Touch Prize of the Critics’ Week Jury
IT’S RAINING IN THE HOUSE
DIRECTOR: Paloma Sermon-Daï
COUNTRY: Belgium, France
YEAR: 2023.
RUNTIME: 82’
LANGUAGE: French
CAST: Makenzy Lombet, Purdey Lombet, Donovan Nizet, Amine Hamidou, Louise Manteau
PRODUCTION: Michigan Films, Kidam, Visualantics
_____________________________
EU TEEN ZONE