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She's The Protagonist

The Protagonist, by her given name, is presented to us in her natural environment : a jungle, sadly, often lacking in density. But today enough is enough! Being the mother, the secretary, the lover, the nanny, the baby bottle, the side piece of the main male character is no longer enough for our dear Protagonist ! Put on "mute" after the allocated time for female* characters in a film was reached, she runs away with her friend Voice-Over for a new journey with plenty of humor.

  • Sarah Carlot Jaber
    Director
    She/ Her
  • Sarah Carlot Jaber
    Writer
    She/ Her
  • Sarah Carlot Jaber
    Producer
    She/ Her
  • Molly Poussart
    Producer
    She/ Her
  • Salomé Richard
    Key Cast
    "La Protagoniste"
    She/ Her
  • Bwanga Pilipili
    Key Cast
    "La Protagoniste"
    She/ Her
  • Magali Pinglaut
    Key Cast
    "La Protagoniste"
    She/ Her
  • Ji Su Jeong
    Key Cast
    "La Protagoniste/ Pricesse"
    She/ Her
  • Mélodie Valemberg
    Key Cast
    "La Protagoniste"
    She/ Her
  • Douglas Grauwels
    Key Cast
    "Le personnage masculin principal"
    He/ Him
  • Gaël Maleux
    Key Cast
    "Le réalisateur"
    He/ Him
  • Charlotte Marchal
    DOP
    She/ Her
  • Violette Leblond
    Continuity
    She/ Her
  • Malena Demierre
    Image Editing
    She/ Her
  • Lise Bouchez
    Sound Editing
    She/ Her
  • Rebecca Jaber
    Makeup Artist
    She/ Her
  • Lucien Keller
    Color Grading/ VFX
    He/ Him
  • Rocio Alvarez
    Credits Animation
    She/ Her
  • Milosz Martyniak
    Set decorator
    He/ They
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    La Protagoniste
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Road movie, western, Absurde
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 1 second
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    11,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Belgium
  • Country of Filming:
    Belgium
  • Language:
    French, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:39
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Script selected for BSFF script competition (Sélectionné au concours de scénario du BSFF)
    Brussels
    Belgium
  • Festival International du Film de Mons
    Mons
    Belgium
    July 12, 2021
    Projection de la Collection Female Gaze
  • Festival International du Film de Mons
    Mons
    Belgium
    July 13, 2021
    Sélection Courts en Hainaut
  • FIFF
    Namur
    Belgium
    October 5, 2021
    FIFF Campus
  • FIFF
    Namur
    Belgium
    October 3, 2021
    Cloture section
  • Ongezien Kort Film Festival
    Antwerpen
    Belgium
    September 18, 2021
    National Competition
  • Pinkscreens QUEER Festival
    Bruxelles
    Belgium
    November 15, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Festival Short Film Kalmthout
    Kalmthout
    Belgium
    November 13, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Festival Courts mais Trash
    Bruxelles
    Belgium
    March 17, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Pinkscreens QUEER Festival
    Bruxelles
    Belgium
    November 18, 2021
    Official Selection
  • International Short Film Festival Kalmthout
    Kalmthout
    Belgium
    November 13, 2021
  • Worldwide Women's Film Festival
    Arizona
    United States
  • Layola University Feminist Festival
    New Orleans
    United States
  • Beirut International Women Film Festival
    Beirut
    Lebanon
    Lebanon premiere
  • 5th International Women Filmmakers Festival

    Turkey
  • CinemaQ
    Shangai
    China
    China Premiere
  • Film Girl Film Festival
  • Film Fest Bremen
    Bremen
    Germany
    German Premiere
    Award Winner Best short film Humour/Satire
  • Women's Comedy Film Festival
    Atlanta
    United States
    Winner of "Most original concept" and "Best International Comedy Film" Nominee also in "Best Director"
  • Divine Queer Film Festival
    Turin
    Italy
    April 1, 2022
    Italy Premiere
    Award Winner Jury price
  • Festival Histoires de Femmes
    Dreux
    France
    June 11, 2022
  • Séance Café Congo - Cycle Pouvoirs et Dérives à la Bellone
    Bruxelles
    Belgium
    November 26, 2021
  • Athens International Film and Video Festival
    Athens, Ohio
    United States
    April 1, 2022
    Narrative Short (Academy Qualifying)
  • Catalyst International Film Festival

    Ireland
    April 1, 2022
    Ireland Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Lundi Tous Courts
    Bruxelles
    Belgium
    March 14, 2022
  • San Sebastian Human Right Film Festival
    San Sebastian
    Spain
    April 1, 2022
    Spain Premiere
  • Festival Cinema for change
    Paris
    France
    April 1, 2022
  • Boden International Film Festival

    Sweden
  • AtomaCon Short Film Festival
    North Charleston
    United States
    May 13, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Kaleidoscope LGBTQ+ Film Festival
    North Little Rock, AR
    United States
    April 28, 2022
  • Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia
    Tokyo
    Japan
    June 7, 2022
    Japan Premiere
  • Construir Cine International Film Festival
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    May 9, 2022
    Argentina Premiere
  • Diamond Eye Film Festival
    Milan
    Italy
    Award Winner Best Educational Film 
  • UPTILT Film Festival
    Wilmington
    United States
    May 20, 2022
  • Etheria Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    United States
    June 18, 2022
    Finalist
  • Aphrodite Film Awards

    United States
    Finalist
  • Diffusion dans le cadre des "Midis du court"
    Mons
    Belgium
    May 27, 2022
  • 8th annual Nevada Women Film Festival
    Las Vegas
    United States
    June 25, 2022
  • Semana de la Diversidad em Santa Catarina
    Saõ Paulo
    Brazil
    May 17, 2022
  • Davis Feminist Film Festival
    Davis
    United States
    May 20, 2022
  • Vienna Shorts Film Festival
    Vienna
    Austria
    May 25, 2022
    In the program line Expedition
  • Festival ECOCINE – International Cinema Festival for environmental and human rights
    Rio
    Brazil
    August 11, 2022
  • Women's Comedy Film Festival
    Chicago
    United States
    Winner Best International Short film
  • 2022 Budapest Movie Awards
    Budapest
    Hungary
    June 11, 2022
  • Dark Comedy Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    United States
    May 23, 2022
    PRIX DU JURY (JUDGE’S AWARD)
  • Grrl Haus Cinema
    Berlin
    Germany
    June 1, 2022
  • FINTCH (Festival International de Cinema de Humor)
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
  • Projection auprès de l'association "Terre de Femmes" (sud de la France)

    France
    July 17, 2022
  • 13 Edition of the International Short Film Fest I Corti Sullettino Cinema e Psicoanalisi
    Naples
    Italy
    July 17, 2022
  • Comicron Festival Internationale del Corto Comico
    Naples
    Italy
    August 4, 2022
  • Mexico LGBTQI+ International Film Festival (Goya Queer)
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    October 1, 2022
  • 19 edición del Festival International de Cine LGBTQ+ OutfestPerú
    Lima
    Peru
    August 1, 2022
  • 8th edition Art Color Digital Cinema International Film Festival
    Montreal
    Canada
    May 31, 2022
    Wining the Best Short Film Award
  • The OutSouth Queer Film Festival
    Durham
    United States
    August 11, 2022
  • taSHORTfest -> 6th edition Barcelona International Shortfilm Comedy Festival
    Barcelone
    Spain
    July 1, 2022
  • Out & Loud - Pune International Queer Film Festival Out & Loud - Pune International Queer Film Festival
    Pune, Maharashtra
    India
    July 14, 2022
  • First Women Film Festival
    Tabriz
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
    June 28, 2022
    Award Winner Best Short Film
  • Small Axe – Radical Shorts Films Awards, (The Vintage Mobile Cinema, Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival.
    Dorset DT2 7EH
    United Kingdom
    July 15, 2022
    Won the Audience Award for best Fiction.
  • 14th edition of Film 4 Fun International Comedy Short Film Festival.
    Sinaia
    Romania
    August 4, 2022
  • CINEF, Festival de Cinéma au féminin
    Kinshasa
    Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
    September 3, 2022
    Prix du meilleur son (Best sound award)
  • Shorts Attack Tour (Interfilm Berlin Distrib)

    Germany
  • CLAM Film Festival 2022 – Festival International de Cinema Social de Catalunya
    Grand Award winner in the short film category
  • Flip the Script
    Minneapolis
    United States
    October 7, 2022
  • Kursaal Film Festival San Sebastián (KFFSS) (preselected)
  • Diritti a Baschi, Human Rights International Film Festival
    Baschi, Terni
    Italy
    August 5, 2022
  • Shockfest Film Festival
    Las Vegas
    United States
    December 10, 2022
  • Louisiana LGBT Film Festival (Louisiana Rainbow)
    New Orleans
    United States
    June 25, 2022
    Award Winner
  • The Women’s Film Festival
    Philadelphia
    United States
    August 28, 2022
  • The QUEER-Streifen Regensburg
    Regensburg
    Germany
    August 31, 2022
  • Brno Film Festival
    Brno
    Czech Republic
    July 28, 2022
  • PORTO FEMME International Film Festival
    Porto
    Portugal
    September 17, 2022
    Best Short Film Award (in International competition)
  • Directed by Women
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    September 15, 2022
  • The Feminist Film Festival
    Bucarest
    Romania
    October 16, 2022
  • Marano Ragazzi Spot Festival
    Napoli
    Italy
    November 20, 2022
  • Imagine This Women Film Festival
    Brooklyn, New York
    United States
    September 23, 2022
  • Festival de films féministes de Montréal
    Montreal
    Canada
    September 7, 2022
  • City of Angels Women’s Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    United States
  • Real deal low budget film festival
    Ittre
    Belgium
    September 13, 2022
    Best Short Film Award, Best Cinematography, Best Script, Best directing
  • Atlanta Women’s Film Festival
    Atlanta
    United States
    October 2, 2022
    Best International Short Film Award
  • Des Images Aux Mots, Festival de Cinéma LGBTQI+
    Toulouse
    France
    February 18, 2023
  • Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin
    Berlin
    Germany
    October 5, 2022
  • Transition International Queer and Minorities Film Festival
    Vienna
    Austria
    November 16, 2022
  • Revolution Me Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    September 29, 2022
    Award : Best director for short film.
  • International Women’s Film Festival – DK
    Spobjevej, Aarhus
    Denmark
    September 21, 2022
  • Dulcímo Ovario
    Pachuca, Hidalgo
    Mexico
    September 22, 2022
  • Reel Q Pittsburgh LGBTQI+ Film Festival
    Pittsburgh
    United States
    October 6, 2022
  • Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival
    Tel Aviv
    Israel
    October 6, 2022
  • Iceland Comedy Film Festival
    Ftateyri
    Iceland
    September 23, 2022
  • Sunderland Shorts Film Festival
    Sunderland
    United Kingdom
    October 17, 2022
  • World of Film International Festival Glasgow
    Glasgow
    United Kingdom
    November 3, 2022
  • Barcelona International Short Film and video Festival
    Barcelona
    Spain
    November 14, 2022
  • Festival de Cinéma de Vernon
    Vernon
    France
    October 14, 2022
  • CineFem10
    Punta del Este
    Uruguay
    September 25, 2022
  • Vierte Welle Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    November 3, 2022
  • Merlinka Festival International Queer Film
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    December 11, 2022
  • This human world - International Human Right Film Festival
    Vienna
    Austria
    December 11, 2022
  • 15th Beijing Queer Film Festival
    Beijing
    China
    November 27, 2022
  • Nahia Film Fest
    Grenada
    Spain
    November 13, 2022
  • QueerBee LGBT Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    November 26, 2022
  • Beijing Queer Festival lineup with Gund Gallery in United States

    United States
    December 1, 2022
  • London City Film Awards
    London
    United Kingdom
    November 10, 2022
Director Biography - Sarah Carlot Jaber

Biography Authoress/ Directress EN :

Authoress/ Directress Sarah Carlot Jaber grew up in the Middle East and work nowadays in Brussels. A Institut des Arts de Diffusion graduate and holder of a master in Gender Studies, she is particularly interested in themes that meet those two disciplines. With five other film makers, members of the 'Elles Font des Films' collective, they have created a series of short films : the 'Female Gaze Collection'. Sarah wrote and directed 'La Protagoniste', a ''meta'' comedy that questions the representations of female characters in Cinema.
Sarah is currently working on her next short fiction films 'Olga' while continuing to write her first feature-length fiction film, selected at the 'Atelier Grand Nord' in 2019 in Québec.

Biographie Autrice/ Réalisatrice FR :

Autrice/ réalisatrice Sarah Carlot Jaber a grandi au Moyen-Orient et travaille aujourd’hui à Bruxelles. Diplômée en réalisation de l’Institut des Arts de Diffusion et titulaire d’un master de spécialisation en études de genre, elle s’intéresse particulièrement aux thématiques à la rencontre de ces deux disciplines. Avec cinq autres cinéastes membres du collectif 'Elles Font des Films', elles mettent sur pied une série de courts métrages : la 'Collection Female Gaze'. Sarah y a écrit et réalisé 'La Protagoniste', une comédie « méta » qui interroge les représentations des personnages féminins au cinéma.
En ce moment, Sarah prépare son prochain court métrage de fiction 'Olga' tout en poursuivant l’écriture de son premier long métrage de fiction sélectionné à l'Atelier Grand Nord en 2019 au Québec.

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Director Statement

She's driving the Car
She's leading the Story
She's The Protagonist!

« Let’s talk about female* characters in this short western! Driving the car, it’s driving the Story! So… fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy road-trip! »