Petit poussin

Suffering from mutism, 12 year-old Maëline finds it hard to be accepted by others. Sent home from the childcare centre, she has no choice but to stay on her own with Patrick, her butcher step-father.

Direction, screenplay: Nadia Anebri (France, 2020)
Cast: Alma Struve (Maëline), Ludovic Berthillot (Patrick), Manon Lemoine (Léa), Claire Loth (Brigitte)
Genre: drama
Awards: selected for the Aix-en-Provence Tous Courts festival (France, 2021), the TISFF (Greece, 2021), the Festival du Film Français d'Helvétie (FFFH) (Switzerland, 2021)