SITTING THOUGHT

Directed by Mathieu Robin

Mathieu Robin was born in 1978 and now lives in Paris. After studying  cinema, he writed and directed his first short-movie in 1996, Mur de verres (Wall of glass).

In 2002, he directed his short-movie Pensée Assise (Sitting Thought) selected in nearly 40 cinema festivals and would later become a novel.

Winner of the Hachette Fondation, he cowrited in 2004 with Anna Novion a feature film called Les Grandes personnes.

This movie announces the style he tries to develop in his first feature film En situation régulière, an "english comedy with french style" produced by Mazel Productions. The story of a North African boy adopted by a french family who has difficulties to find his place.

At the same time, he writes for TV a burlesque series about urban myths et a 3D animation movie produced by Bac Films and directed by Samuel Tourneux.

French Festivals :
. Avignon International Film Festival (2002)
. Cabourg Film Festival « Journées Romantiques » (2002)
Woman interpretation price Dinara Droukarova
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 Grenoble Film Festival « Plein-Air » (2002)
Public Price
Aigues-Mortes Film Festival (2002)
Jury special Price
Sarlat Film Festival (2002)
Best young director Price
Villeurbanne Film Festival (2002)
INSA Student Price 
Poitiers Film Festival (2002)
Prix de la mise en scène
Vendôme Film Festival « Images en Région » (2002)
. Film Festival « De Nevers à l’Aube » (2002)
. Clermont-Ferrand Film festival (2003)
. Mulhouse festival (2003)
First Price
. Atout Court Decines festival (2003)
Price of the Indépendant Movie
. Lille festival (2003)
​Independant Short Film Price
. La Ciotat festival (2003)
. Court Toujours Festival (2003)
Public price and Young public price
. Onze Court Festival (2003)
. Décines Festival (2003)
. Gindou Festival (2003)
. Jean Carmet Festival, Avermes (2003)
Jury and Public prices for Bruno Debrandt
. « Du grain à Démoudre » Festival, Gonfreville l’Orcher (2003)
. Cinambule Festival, Murs (2003)
. Toulouse’s festival (2003)
. Masseube Festival, Ciné 32 (2003)
. HEC Festival (2003)
Jury Price
. Saint-Affrique Festival (2004)
. Séquence Toulouse (2004)
. Cabrières d’Avignon (2004)

International Festivals :
. Rotterdam Film Festival (Holland, 2003)
. Richmond Festival (USA, 2003)
. New York Film festival (USA, 2003)
. Lauzanne Festival (Switzerland, 2003)  
. Bludenz Festival (Austria, 2003)
Gold Licorn
Morbegno film Festival (Italy, 2003)
. Festival Francophone de Namur (Belgium, 2003)
. Francophone Film Festival of Tubingen (Germany, 2003)
. Hull Festival (England, 2003)
. Festival du cinéma International en Abitibi Témiscamingue (Canada, 2003)
. Pescara Festival (Italy, 2003)
. Screened at hte French Institute of St-Pétersbourg, (Russia, 2004)
. Imago Festival (Portugal, 2004)

TV Diffusion :
. France 2 (France)
. TPS (France)
. Médiatrade (Italy)
. TV8 Mont Blanc (France)
. Multicanal (International)
. BeTV (Belgium)
. TV5 Monde (France)
. Orange Cinema Series (France)

Synopsis : A young guy have meet a young russian student. Their love story becomes complicated when Theo stubbornly insists on kissing Sofia standing.

Dramatic comedy  - 15’45 – Film gauge : 35mm – 1,66 – Color – Dolby SR – France 2002

Cast : Dinara Droukarova, Bruno Debrandt and François Breniaux
Direction : Mathieu Robin
Original idea : Mathieu Robin and Christophe Chudy
Producer : Alexandre Charlet
Line producer : Emmanuelle Dory
Cinematographer : Benoit Feller
Art director : Johann Georges
Stylist : Christel Birot
Sound : Guillaume Chevallier, Julien Alves & Gildas Mercier
Editor : Charlotte Rembauville
Composers : Alice Guerlot-Kourouklis & Pascal Bideau

With the participation of the Rhône-Alpes Regional Fund.