Philosophy
Founded in 2005 by Olivier Mardi and Guillaume de la Boulaye, Zorba Production produces feature films and documentary films for cinema, television and new media. |
Showreel
In development
Red House
A dark and rhythmic thriller between France and South Korea in which a woman, haunted by a desire of vengeance, will overtake her fears and discover strengths she never had suspected. Screenplay: Fabien Commoy, Jéro Yun |
The Gang
A bunch of seniors, ruined by the financial crisis, kidnaps its financial advisor and begins a wild journey to recover the money lost. Screenplay: In progress |
Marcel Proust
SYNOPSIS At 38, Marcel Proust is a writer who does not write. Devoted to writing from an early age, he still seeks the stumbling block of his Great Work: the book of his life. Screenplay: Thibaut Gobry |
Hymen
Winner of the Foundation Beaumarchais grant Right after their wedding, a young couple has to discover love for the first time. The weight of tradition on their wedding night makes the first step painful, frightening, exciting and violent at the same time. The young wife knows neither the sexual act nor the man she just got married with. Clashes in which are competing impulses, traditions and feelings are expressed without a word being told, only by body language. Pre-purchased by France 3 television Author : Violaine Bellet |
In Post-Production
What? Eternity
Winner of the Foundation Beaumarchais Script Award and grant The last days of Marcel Proust’s life seen through the eyes of. Céleste, her governess, gives us an intimate look to this man who we will never see, confined in his room by the disease. She takes care of him, writes Under his dictation, sews his book as a dress. According to the visits, the doctors want to … the friends want to see him, to read his book. But he wishes only one thing : to finish his work before death takes him. Screenplay : Thibaut Gobry Cast : Sterenn Guirriec, (Céleste), Noémie Rosenblatt (Marie), Laurent Poitrenaux (Reynaldo Hahn), Sébastien Lalanne (Odilon), François Podetti (Robert Proust), Yves Arnault (Doctor Bize), Jean-Marie Fonbonne (Professor Babinski), Gianluca Matarrese (Courriériste), Max Sisternas (Postman). |
Looking for North Koreans
Louis Lumière Foundation Award 2010 A South Korean man travels alone to the Yellow Sea where many naval battles have spilled blood since the separation of the two Koreas. He searches for North Koreans escapees, risking his own life, endangered by the Chinese police. In his quest he moves from Incheon (South Korea), to various Chinese cities: Dandong – Qingdao – Shanghai. Along his journey he meets those who escaped, and tells us their heartbreaking stories. Editing: Virginie Véricourt |
Films Produced
2007
In 2005, the actress Sarah Le Picard staged six students of the Academy of Dramatic Art of Paris in Eric Lacascade's adaptation. Mia Hansen-Love and Elie Wajeman wanted to translate the theatrical emotion in a movie. This film helps the spectator feel the purity and the sincerity of a theatrical experience, with a unique closeness to the actors and an elegant and fluid style. Genre: Theatrical Film Cast: Platonov : Sylvain Sounier (Platonov), Marion Picard (Sacha), Louise Roch (Anna), Lionel Drey (Ossip), Lolita Chammah (Sofia), Elia Marder (Grekova) Broadcasted on the FEMIS |
2010
In Bolivia, it is told that a man has made a pact with the Devil to become rich. Fascinated by this story, a traveler leaves his native Europe to attempt to find this man in the mythical city of Potosi, the largest silver deposit in the world. in Co-production with the Institute for Research and Development (IRD) – Brigitte Surugue Released in theaters in France in November/December 2011 (Nouveau Latina) Festival Selections Website: www.latentationdepotosi-lefilm.fr
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2010
Grand Prize of the Asiana International Short Film Festival 2011 (Seoul, South Korea) New year 2010. It has been already 9 years since she saw her son. « My son will come back to this Promised Land. Yes… My son will come back to this Promised Land… » She does not lose hope. Screenplay : Jéro Yun Festival Selections |
2010
Based on a nightmare: an old man is suddenly thrown in slow motion in a surrealist universe. Time stops… Writer: Jéro Yun Festival Selections
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2009
Louise is a cellist. She has to give a concert in five days, but her cello is damaged. No stringed-instrument maker can repair it, not even Pierre. The day of the concert approaches. Her instrument can fail at any time. Screenplay : Thibaut Gobry Cast : Olivia Ross (Louise) , Sébastien Lalanne (Pierre) , Nathalie Dufraisse (Pierre’s assistant), Bernard Cheron (the stringed-instrument maker Demeyer) Festival |
2006
1st Award at the Inconnu Festival (France) Haruto drives randomly on the deserted roads of Hokkaido and takes a rabbit-man hitchhiker who offers him a mask. Tetsu is looking for something he lost in his soul. Sona loses interest in the ill-being of Tetsu. Miwa hesitates to follow the rabbit man in an unknown and mysterious world… Fragile destinies are connecting and disconnecting each other between reality and realm of imagination to eventually cross.
Broadcasted on PinkTV, PlasticTV Exhibition at the Cube (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), the George Pompidou Center (Paris, France) and at the Forum des Images (Paris, France) Festival Selections: Tirana International Film Festival TIFF05 (Albania), International Meetings Paris – Berlin (France- Germany)
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2005
CNC Aide Selective & New Technologies Awards With his 3 feet tall, little Martin is taken by his Mom to a carnival, with the obligation to have fun. « Martin Look here, Martin over there !... » Excitement is everywhere and Little Martin obeys to everything his Mom tells him, but actually all he wants is a red balloon… And then he wants two, then a green and a blue one… The film, rewarded worldwide in Festivals, tells us the drama of a child trapped into a world of adults. Genre: Drama Cast: Alexis Eygonnet (The little Martin), Anne Gaydier (The mother) Awards : Lauréat de l'aide sélective et de l'aide aux nouvelles technologies du CNC Prix du scénario de la ville de Clermont Ferrand. Prix du meilleur court-métrage au festival de Giffoni (Italie) Ours d'or et Grand prix du Meilleur film au festival d'Ebensee (Autriche) Grand Prix du Festival de La Villette (Paris) Prix du jury 8/10 ans au festival Récréacourt de Montreuil Mention spéciale du jury au festival de Sao Paolo (Brésil) Sélectionné pour la cérémonie d'ouverture du Festival du cinéma Européen de Lille catégorie « les meilleurs courts-métrages primés de l'année 2007 ». Broadcasted by France 3 TV, TPS, CanalSat, TV5 Monde, Orange Cinema Series, (France) Movieola (Canada), ManUnion (Japan) Festival Selections: Selected for the opening ceremony of the Lille Film Festival (France)
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2010
Best Short Award at the Short Shorts Film Festival & ASIA 2011 (Tokyo, Japan) Based on the short story « Chugoku yasai no sodatekata » by Yoko Ogawa A young woman gets the seeds of a mysterious vegetable supposed to have incredible energetic values. To bloom, the vegetable requires constant care, which helps the young woman to feel her inner-self ambitions, and thus transforms her little by little. Her insipid routine slowly takes a new turn… Screenplay: Marie-Luce David, Violaine Bellet and Yuki Kawamura |
2008
I am part of the Universe. The space I am living in is vast. I don't know many things. I investigate, I discover, my relation to the world evolves. Nothing is motionless. Screenplay : Jéro Yun Exhibitions
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