Private Project

Our dumb lips

A man returns to his deceased mother’s house to sort her personal belongings before it goes on sale. There he finds peculiar indications of his mother’s inner life as disturbing poems and strange pictures begin to surface.

  • DIAZ LISA
    Director
  • DIAZ LISA
    Writer
  • QUESSON COLETTE
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 26 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 6, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    150,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    DIGITAL
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • FESTIVAL TRAVELLING
    RENNES
    SCRIPT AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTATION
  • FESTIVAL DOUARNENEZ
    DOUARNENEZ
    France
    August 26, 2016
  • FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE DE MENORCA
    MENORCA
    Spain
    July 22, 2016
  • Budafest, Budapest film festival
    Budapest
    Hungary
    November 19, 2016
  • festival de Porto Vecchio
    porto vecchio
    France
  • festival de Mulhouse
    Mulhouse
    France
    April 1, 2017
  • festival de lucca
    Lucca
    Italy
    April 7, 2017
  • festival films de l'ouest
    betton
    France
    June 10, 2017
  • Santiago del Estero film festival
    Santiago del Estero
    Argentina
    July 11, 2017
  • Eye Myth film
    Toronto
    Canada
    June 23, 2017
  • Olhores do Mediterraneo
    Lisbon
    Portugal
    September 28, 2017
  • Taratsa Internation film festival
    thessalonik
    Greece
    August 23, 2017
    best cinematography award
  • Plebeian film festival
Director Biography - DIAZ LISA

Lisa Diaz started cinema after litterature and History studies at la Sorbonne. She began as a script girl before she directed her first short film in 2006, the Absentee (first price of the Eure / Moulin d’Andé Script Award). Then she has directed two documentaries (100 kms apart and To be continued), and other short fictions: Home Trip, coproduced by national channel, France 2, with Sabrina Ouazani and the ear of a pianist, with Adélaïde Leroux. Our dumb lips, her last fiction, has received the support of the CNC production fund and the new technologies fund. Her films have been screened and awarded in both national and international film festivals. She has participated in various training programme and writing residences at la FEMIS, Groupe Ouest (annual selection in 2007) or in Lussas. She is now developing her first feature, summer 81.

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Director Statement

this film is the adaptation of a short belgium novel (I won an award of best adaptation in Travelling film festival). I wanted to film, through images and sounds, the relationship between a dead unloving mother and his son. My idea was that the film should become more poetic and less narrative as the story goes on. The film is between different "genres" - a mix of horror, experimental and psychological movie.