By Blood
Once a ruthless war lord who won his land by his sword, Mort-Lieu is now a sick old man. A mysterious knight appears ; Mort-Lieu believes the stranger is Death himself coming to get him. Facing his own end, Mort-Lieu has to confront his legacy.
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Guillaume EnardDirectorBrumes
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Jonathan DelerueDirector
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Guillaume EnardWriterBrumes
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Jonathan DelerueWriter
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Matthieu BerenguerProducer
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Emmanuel HamonProducer1 tous les 3 jours, Cold Ground
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Jonathan DelerueProducer
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Guillaume EnardProducer
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Pascal GreggoryKey Cast"Mort-Lieu"La Vie en Rose, Queen Margot, The Messenger, Saint-Laurent
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Anne CharrierKey Cast"Alienor"Paid, Maison Close, Thank You for Calling
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Jonas BloquetKey Cast"Hargrold"Elle, The Nun, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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Eric SavinKey Cast"Gerbert"Fair Play, Caged, Tell No One
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François-David CardonnelKey Cast"The "Knight""Templeton, Dans l'Ombre du Tueur
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Project Title (Original Language):Par le Sang
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Drama
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Runtime:19 minutes 57 seconds
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Completion Date:January 24, 2018
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Production Budget:52,500 EUR
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:France
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Language:French
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:2.35
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Oniros Film AwardsAosta
Italy
Best Short Film Award - Best Acting Ensemble Award -
Redline International Film FestivalToronto
Canada
April 6, 2018
Best Supporting Actress Award - Best Production Design Award -
Elephant Rome Film FestivalRome
Italy
Official Selection -
European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA)Warsaw
Poland
Best Film of the Month Award - Best Europe Film Award - Best Director Award - Best Cinematographer Award -
MedFFSiracusa
Italy
March 31, 2018
Finalist / Official Selection -
St Tropez Film FestivalSaint Tropez
France
Best Short Film Award - Best History/War Film Award - Best Cinematography Award - Best Costume Award -
Paris Short Film FestivalParis
France
May 10, 2018
Official Selection -
Lake View International Film FestivalLudhiana, Punjab
India
Best International Short Film Award - Best Director Award - Best Cinematography Award -
South Film and Arts Academy FestivalRancagua
Chile
April 16, 2018
Best Historical Short Film Award - Best Cinematography Award - Best Costume Design Award -
AAB International Film FestivalMoga, Punjab
India
April 22, 2018
Best Film of the Month Award -
Eurasia International Monthly Film FestivalMoscow
Russian Federation
April 25, 2018
Best Film of the Month Award - Best Cinematography Award -
Enginuity Film FestivalCharles Town & Las Vegas
United States
May 19, 2018
North American Premiere
Best Short Film Award - Best Supporting Actor Award (Jonas Bloquet) - Best Costume Award - Best Lighting Award - Best Stunts Award -
Mind the Indie Film FestivalPlovdiv
Bulgaria
June 9, 2018
Bulgarian Premiere
Official Selection -
Gold Movie Awards Goddess NikeLondon
United Kingdom
Best Editing Award - Best Scenography Award -
Top Indie Film Awards
United States
April 30, 2018
Best Director Award / Best Production Design Award -
Underground Indie Film FestivalApopka
United States
June 3, 2018
Official Selection -
Moving Pictures FestivalKalmthout, Antwerp
Belgium
June 16, 2018
Belgium Premiere
Official Selection -
Paris Art and Movie Awards, PAMAParis
France
June 24, 2018
Best Director of Photography -
Berlin Short Film FestivalBerlin
Germany
July 1, 2018
German Premiere
Official Selection -
Bucharest International Film FestivalBucharest
Romania
June 14, 2018
Romanian Premiere
Official Selection -
Spotlight Short Film AwardsAtlanta
United States
Spotlight Gold Award -
SunSète FestivalSète
France
July 9, 2018 -
AltFF Alternative Film FestivalToronto
Canada
June 18, 2018
Best Film of the Festival Award - Best Period Piece Award -
Mexico City Independent Film FestivalMexico City
Mexico
July 5, 2018
Mencion Honorifica -
Super Geek Film FestivalFort Lauderdale
United States
July 12, 2018 -
HollyShorts Film FestivalSherman Oaks
United States
August 9, 2018 -
Woodengate Film FestivalBaia Mare
Romania
August 11, 2018
Best Short Film Award - Best Director Award - Best Lead Actor Award (Pascal Greggory) - Best Editor Award -
Action On Film International Film FestivalLas Vegas
United States
August 16, 2018 -
Oniros Film Awards Annual EventAosta
Italy
August 25, 2018
Italian Premiere
Best Film of Year Award - Honourable Mention -
New Renaissance Film Festival (London, UK)London
United Kingdom
August 23, 2018
Best Actor in an International Film Award (Pascal Greggory) -
Underground Cinema Film FestivalDublin
Ireland
September 1, 2018
Ireland Premiere
Best International Short Film Award -
Toronto Independent Film FestivalToronto
Canada
September 7, 2018
Official Selection -
Miami Independent Film FestivalMiami
United States
September 9, 2018
Official Selection -
Ciudad del Este Independent Film FestivalCiudad del Este Independent Film Festival
Paraguay
September 19, 2018
Paraguay Premiere
Official Selection -
International Short Film Festival in DramaDrama
Greece
September 16, 2018
Greece Premiere
Official Selection -
Pondicherry International Film Festival 2018Pondicherry
India
September 26, 2018
Official Selection -
Västerås FilmfestivalVästerås Filmfestival
Sweden
October 5, 2018
Sweden Premiere
Official Selection -
Lake Charles Film & Music FestivalLake Charles
United States
October 5, 2018
Best Foreign Film Award -
San Jose International Short Film FestivalSan Jose
United States
October 11, 2018
Official Selection -
7th Delhi International Film Festival 2018, New DelhiNew Delhi
India
October 14, 2018
Official Selection -
Cardiff International Film FestivalCardiff
United Kingdom
October 19, 2018
Wales Premiere
Best Foreign Language Film Finalist -
Feel the Reel International Film FestivalGlasgow
United Kingdom
October 23, 2018
Best of the Fest Award - Best Director Award - Best Screenplay Award - Best Actor Award (Pascal Greggory) - Best Cinematography Award - Best Music Award -
International Short Film Festival SFFLondon
United Kingdom
October 26, 2018
Official Selection -
TMFF - The Monthly Film FestivalGlasgow
United Kingdom
November 1, 2018
Best Film of the Month Award - Best Actor Award (Pascal Greggory) - Best Original Score Award - Best Editor Award -
Short Long World Festival, Corrientes, ArgentinaCorrientes
Argentina
November 8, 2018
Argentinian Premiere
Best Narrative Short Film Award -
Liverpool International Film Festival 2018Liverpool
United Kingdom
November 9, 2018
Official Selection -
Hollywood Forever Film FestivalLos Angeles
United States
November 10, 2018
Best Short Film Award - Best Actor Award (Jonas Bloquet) - Best Actress Award (Anne Charrier) - Best Set Design Award -
International Short Film Festival BeverenBeveren
Belgium
November 23, 2018
Official Selection -
Short Stop International Film FestivalIasi
Romania
December 11, 2018
2nd Best Short Award - Best Actress Award (Anne Charrier) - Best Original Score Award - Best Editor Award -
California International Shorts FestivalEncino, CA
United States
December 15, 2018
Best Foreign Short Award -
Canada Shorts - Canadian & International Short Film Fest.St John
Canada
December 15, 2018
Official Selection -
São Paulo Film FestivalSao Paulo Film Festival
Brazil
December 11, 2018
Brazilian Premiere
Best Cinematography Award -
The Grand Budapest Film FestivalBudapest
Hungary
January 17, 2019
Hungarian Premiere
Official Selection
GUILLAUME ENARD - Director.
Born in Paris, Guillaume studies filmmaking at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, where he directs his first short Correction starring the famous French actor Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu.
After graduating, he spends the next 10 years working as editor and sound editor on several TV series and feature films such as L’Affaire Dreyfus, Jean Moulin, Dieu Que les Femmes Sont Amoureuses or Una Pura Formalita, collaborating with such famous French directors as Yves Boisset, Magali Clement or Guiseppe Tornatore.
In 2004, Guillaume becomes a full time script writer. He writes, adapts for the screen and supervises the writing of many TV properties such as Marvel’s Iron Man, Casper, Spirou et Fantasio, Invisible Man, Le Marsupilami, Baskup Tony Parker, Trolls of Troy, Plankton Invasion, Mini Ninjas, My Giant Friend, etc.
Meanwhile he directs Brumes, awarded at the L.A. Screamfest Horror Film Festival and the Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival, and broadcasted many times on Universal’s network 13ème Rue. Then, Guillaume writes several feature films such as the monster movie Unleashed and the animated feature Kitty. Then, Guillaume develops the dystopian TV Series Asile – Le Monde d’Après with Room 237, the supernatural adventure drama Desolacion with producer Michel Ruben and director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego. Following that, Guillaume also adapts as a TV Series the English thriller best-seller Until You’re Mine for the production company Banijay.
Presently, Guillaume is finishing writing the comedy En Vert et Contre Tous for Tigerfish production company. Now that his new short Par le Sang is completed, he’s beginning to develop his feature film projects with his co-director Jonathan Delerue.
JONATHAN DELERUE - Director
Graduate of the Emile Cohl School of Art in 2004, Jonathan hones his skills as a storyboard artist working for the most part on the “French Frayeurs” film collection such as Frontière(s), Mutants, La Traque and Vertiges.
Rapidly, Jonathan lends his pen and talent to prestigious French production companies, working frequently with Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp (Colombiana, Taken 2, Taken 3, 3 Days to Kill, and the forthcoming Koursk…), Dimitri Rassam’s Chapter 2 (Gibraltar, Paradise Lost), academy award winner Thomas Langman (Vanikoro), Alain Goldman’s Légende Films (La French, HHhH), Jericho Films (Radin, Rémi Sans Famille), and also Why Not Productions’ Jackie… He just completed storyboarding Alain Chabat’s Santa & Cie, and Jean-François Richet’s L’Empereur de Paris…
Currently, Jonathan is moving on to making films with his short Par le Sang, which is the spearhead project to be followed with feature films with his co-writer and co-director Guillaume Enard.
As filmmakers we are fascinated with The Dark Ages. Back then, human life was worthless, social and politic life were based on inequality and absolutely devoid of ethics and morals as we understand them today. The right to be, to bear your name and to breath to the venerable age of 40 are the main rewards of a daily fight. Death, also known as La Carnade in France, is one reality that everyone share : Peasants, Kings, Soldiers, Men of God and Heretics as well. The weakest fights a losing battle while the strongest finds in Death a way to rise socially. Our main character, the Lord of Mort-Lieu is one of the latter. Born an illegitimate child, he won his name and his land by his sword. Angry and revengeful, resolved to prove his worth, Mort-Lieu is a man of his time, a ruthless man. Until now…
The lord of war is now a sick old man. As he stares into Death's eyes he learns about fear. A mysterious knight appears and Mort-Lieu believes he is the grim Reaper himself coming to get him. In the fading twilight of his life Mort-Lieu picks his ultimate and already lost fight, and feels the need to look back at what he has accomplished. What is his legacy ? His castle built on a rocky spear ? His legitimate and despicable son who never experienced the rush of fighting and bloodshed ? The bastard emblems that cover his coat of arms ? Facing none other than himself, it is now with his last duel that Mort-Lieu understands the value of life.
To capture our vision of the Dark Ages on film and increase Mort-Lieu’s distress, we think of PAR LE SANG as a medieval western. Scenography and weaponry of this time allow us to enhance our story’s themes with a strong visual signature, they extend our characters’ psychological depth to the point where violence is the way of showing how they feel. PAR LE SANG is a touching and universal tale which allows us to show how the awareness of death encourage us to live. It’s about the end of an era, Heredity and Redemption, and the final stand off is the metaphoric resolution for the eternal father and son conflict.
Because Mort-Lieu is a cornered man we keep him caught between a rock and a hard place, stuck in his armor and entrapped in the frame. It is significant to us that the audience embraces our hero’s realization : he can not hide away from his fate. With the idea of strengthening Mort-Lieu’s suffering, the mysterious knight is always seen from his point of view, as an enigma that we will solve with him throughout the film. Mort-Lieu’s last journey is the guiding thread that links all of our narrative and artistic choices.
We are not women and men of the Dark Ages ; nevertheless, there is a bit of Mort-Lieu in each of us.