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Section: International competition of European feature film debuts
Papa was not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Stéphanie has grown up in La Courneuve in the 1980s with an absent mother and a brutal stepfather. She soon decides to find a way out of this dull everyday life. Her readings, her passion for dancing and Jean-Jacques Goldman, and (above all) the love of her grand-mother help Stéphanie to struggle in this nonetheless colourful estate where friendship always prevails. One day, she knows it, Stéphanie is going to leave the estate to live the life she’s always dreamt of.
| Country | France |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Duration | 99 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | French |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Sylvie Ohayon |
| Screenplay | Sylvie Ohayon, Sylvie Verheyde |
| Director of Photography | Laurent Brunet |
| Music | Matthieu Sibony |
| Edited by | Sophie Fourdrinoy |
| Contact | The Festival Agency |
Biography
Sylvie Ohayon (1970) is a French writer, screenwriter and director. She graduated from linguistic studies, worked for a long while in advertising, then began working in the literary field. She's the author of four books. Her first autobiographical novel Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2011), was the basis for her own film of the same name (2014), which was also her debut as a screenwriter and director in the area of feature film.