Creative documentary, 30 minutes, in development.

Short documentary sketch. 5 minutes, 2024, available on demand.

Writing: Ophélie Bellaton and Alexander Viollet

Director: Alexander Viollet

Production: Imagista

DoP: Alexander Viollet

Producer: Martin Rivarel

Synopsis:

Éléonore lives in Paris but grew up on an island in the south of France. She recounts the moment in her life when she had to leave her island home to live in the anonymity of a big city. An emancipating, yet painful testimony to what we leave behind to be free.

Production word :

A look at exile and the feelings torn between the desire to move to the city, but also the feeling of uprootedness when leaving a homeland with an insular identity.

A universal tale of migration, rurality and neo-urbanity.

Themes: Portrait, rurality, migration, integration, identity, youth, urban life, uprooting.

The short documentary was shown at :

- LES NUITS MED - 18th Mediterranean Short Film Festival - Bastia : Competition

- Baarìa Film Festival, Sicily, Italy: Competition

- 22nd Festival Court'Echelle Télé Sorbonne, Paris: Out of competition

- Festival de la Lune, Carqueiranne: Special Screening

Screenwriter Ophélie Bellaton took part in Med In Scénario's Intention writing residency in the Var region in August 2025, organized by Cinéma de La Lune and Quattrocento in association with the CNC.