BOO International Film Festival | 3–9 November 2025, Prague

Fireworks

7. 11. 2025
19:00
Kino Kavalírka
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Film
original title
Les Artifices
directed by
Kahina Le Querrec
produced by
Emilie Tardif (Améthyste Films)
year
2024
duration
24 minutes
country
France
language
French with English and Czech subtitles

Summer vacations, campsites and the sea. As he does every year, Jean, a fireworks expert, takes his two daughters Julie, 8, and Manon, 14, with him in his camper van to take part in his pyrotechnic shows. Normally, they don't mind, but this summer things are different: Manon is looking forward to her first romance.

 

After completing a degree in the performing arts at Paris 8, Kahina Le Querrec joined Claude Lelouch’s Ateliers du Cinéma. There she directed L'Heure bleue and Contre la nuit, produced by G.R.E.C. In 2022, she directed Les Artifices, produced by Amethyste Films and selected in Brest, before entering the screenplay workshop at La Fémis. Since then, she has been developing her first feature film, La Faille, co-written with Maïté Sonnet, winner of the CNC writing grant and co-writer for directors such as Cédric Kahn.