Il pleut dans la maison

Synopsis

In the middle of a hot, stormy summer by a tourist lake, seventeen-year-old Purdey and her younger brother Makenzy walk the line between experiencing adolescence, finding love and fending for themselves. While Purdey works as a cleaner in a hotel complex, Makenzy earns some money by robbing tourists. Left to their own devices, they must learn to support each other in a surprisingly tender journey that chronicles what feels like the last summer of their youth.

Following the documentary Petit Samedi, screened at l'Alternativa 2020, Paloma Sermon-Daï’s debut fiction feature addresses the challenges of adolescence for marginalised characters portrayed with a sensitivity more characteristic of nonfiction.

Biography and Films

Paloma Sermon-Daï (Namur, Belgium, 1993) studied arts and humanities at the Conservatoire de Huy and film at the Haute École Libre de Bruxelles. Her graduation short film, Makenzy, was selected for Visions du Réel in 2017. In 2020 she directed her first feature-length documentary, Petit Samedi, which premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2020 and won several awards, including Best Documentary at the Athens International Film Festival. It was also part of the official selection at l'Alternativa 2020. Her first fiction feature film, Il pleut dans la maison, had its world premiere at Critics’ Week at Cannes, where it received the French Touch Jury Prize.