SILENT REBELLION
A film by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
SILENT REBELLION
A film by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
- 2025
- Switzerland, Belgium, France
- 96 minutes
- VO French
15-year-old Emma – pregnant after a rape – defies her repressive rural Protestant community to carve a path of self-determination, transforming trauma into a catalyst for emancipation while confronting the moral hypocrisy of the village and the spectre of World War II around her.
CREDITS
With
Lila Gueneau
Grégoire colin
Thomas Doret
Aurélia Petit
Sandrine Blancke
Sasha Gravat
Cyril Metzger
Written by
Nadine Lamari
Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
Directed by
Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
Director of photography
Benoit Dervaux
Editing
Karine Sudan
Sound engineer
Xavier Lavorel
Sound editing and mixing
Henry Sims
Xavier Lavorel
Franco Piscopo
First assistant director
Marc-Daniel Gerber
Art directing
Sara B. Weingart
Costumes
Geneviève Maulini
Makeup
Laurence Rieux
Hair
Alexandra Bredin
Gaffer
Antoine Bellem
Production manager
Christelle Michel
Producers
Elena Tatti
Nicolas Wittwer
Production
Box Productions
In coproduction with
Hélicotronc
Offshore
Swiss Distribution
FILMOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR
Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. She graduated with a Bachelor in Film from HEAD-Genève (Geneva University of Art and Design) in 2010 and in 2012 completed her Master at the INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle), Brussels. Her first short VAS-Y JE T’AIME (2009) screened in Locarno. She went on to direct BAM TCHAK (2010), and ON THE BEACH (2012), awarded the Bayard d’or for Best Short at FIFF in Namur. YOU CAN’T DO EVERYTHING AT ONCE, BUT YOU CAN LEAVE EVERYTHING AT ONCE (2013) was selected in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes and in another fifty festivals.
SILENT REBELLION is her first feature-length film.
