Immediate Departure

Thomas Briat
(France, 1995), 14 min., 35 mm, b/w

Cast and production team

The man The woman Ticket-collector Guard Musician Director of photography Music Director of production Editor Producer

Bruno Lochet Amira Casar Fabien Behart Mourad M'Barek-Kouidri Bernard Tissier, Christophe Arthus Philip Glass Isabelle Perrot Françoise Bernard Marie-Anne de la Palme, Les Films du Grillon

Awards won by Immediate Departure

1996

Prix spécial du jury, Festival de Clermond Ferrand. Grand prix Canal +, Festival de Cabourg. Prix de la jeunesse, Festival de Nancy. Prix Eddie Constantine, Festival international de Tours. Grand prix, Festival de Vendome. Golden Orange, Festival d'Ankara. Nominated by Unifrance for the Yokohama Festival

Thomas Briat

Born in Paris in 1962, Thomas graduated from L'Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (the French national film school). After working for several years as an assistant director on many full-length films, he worked with Frédéric Mitterand as a director on various documentaries such as The Lovers of the Century (Fellini-Massina, Bogart-Bacall, Aragon-Elsa). Départ Immédiat is his first short film produced after graduation. At the present time, he is working on the script of his first full-length film.

Filmography (short films)

La chambre noire, 27 min. L'ombre blanche, 15 min. Départ immédiat, 14 min. Shutter, 4 min.

Director's synopsis of Immediate Departure

Who has never dreamed of approaching a total stranger in the street, with an irrational intuition that it could be the man or the woman of your life? This film is the story of someone who tried to make this dream come true...