SIMILAR

In a society close to our own, where the importance of nature is perceived differently, Chrome and the "Earth Brigade" attempt to maintain order inside the zone for which they are responsible.

  • Florent Agostini
    Director
  • Florent Agostini
    Writer
  • Masanori Omori
    Director of Photography
  • Benoit Medori
    Music
  • Sampiero Medori
    Producer
  • Timothée Potée
    Edit
  • Benjamin Lhommas
    Key Cast
    Chrome
  • Pierre Besson
    Key Cast
    Basmati
  • Orhan Munoz
    Key Cast
    Tchouri
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    SIMILAIRES
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    24 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 21, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    HD CAM
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Fine Cut
    Internet
    March 1, 2017
  • LE MUP FESTIVAL
    Montreal
    Canada
    April 28, 2017
    North American Premiere
    2nd Prize
  • Deep Cut Festival
    Kitchener, Ontario
    Canada
    June 17, 2017
    Vision Award
  • Where Is The Horse Film Festival
    Mirabel, Québec
    Canada
    September 12, 2017
  • ACAFILMS LOW FILM FESTIVAL
    São Paulo
    Brazil
    July 14, 2017
  • AltFF Alternative Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    June 14, 2017
  • Woodengate Film Festival
    Baia Mare, Maramures
    Romania
    June 21, 2017
  • Defy Film Festival
    Nashville
    United States
    August 18, 2017
  • Sofia Independent FIlm Festival
    Sofia
    Bulgaria
    October 31, 2017
  • Alameda International Film Festival
    Alameda
    United States
    November 8, 2017
  • GEOFILMFESTIVAL and EXPOCINEMA
    Padova
    Italy
    October 9, 2017
Director Biography - Florent Agostini

Florent Agostini was born in Beaumont in the Puy-De-Dome and received his baccalaureate in 2010 at Clermont-Ferrand. Having explored small amateur film projects since a young age, he goes off to ESEC to study cinema as soon as he turns 18.
He then decides to leave university after his first theoretical year in order to work on a telefilm, “Les Anonymes”, directed by Pierre Schoeller. By chance, he obtains the position of broadcast technician for the television channel BFM TV, which allows him to forge his outlook onto the wider world.
This job relatively far from the 7th art, liberating occasionally considerable frustrations, became his largest source of determination. Florent Agostini creates in 2015 the Label SIMILAR MIND, name under which he kick-starts the writing of his first short film, SIMILAIRES.
Attached to his Auvergnan roots, he decides to shoot the entirety of this ecological social satire in an environment that saw him blossom from a child to a man, surrounded by family and childhood friends. After a lonely 9-month combat of writing and organisation, the filming took place in the heart of the Vallée du Sancy, where anybody was given the right to participate.
The film SIMILAIRES then became a local project conveying a truly universal message.

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Director Statement

An open window on a parallel society presents us with individuals from all horizons, each with independent objectives. From the middle aged man constrained to urban exodus to the child considered to be in academic deviance, a confrontation of banal situations takes a turn out of the ordinary. Each character is able to live consciously in an all but too real absurdity as he accepts from the start to cohabitate in a society where no code is occult.
That is the entire purpose of SIMILAR. To lose the audience between reality and fiction. Between a world that resembles them and an imaginary one paradoxically not so absurd.

F.A.