YOU BURN

How to rekindle the flame of a romance that is dying out?
This is the story of two distraught lovers.
A man who confesses and who is not seen.
A woman who is seen and who does not speak.
Everything takes place during a walk where everything awakens, everything can change, but on which side...

  • Saadi BELGAID
    Writer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    TU BRÛLES
  • Project Type:
    Short Script
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama, Phylosophy
  • Number of Pages:
    7
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Thilsri International Film Festival
    Alampattu
    September 26, 2024
    BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
  • Nitiin International Film Festival
    Penang
    September 29, 2024
    BEST SHORT SCRIPT SCREENPLAY
  • Festival international du film d'Athvikvaruni
    Tamil Nadu
    October 30, 2024
    BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
  • ROHIP INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    Kallal
    September 30, 2024
    Honorable Mention Award BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
  • Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
    ATHENS
    January 25, 2025
    HONORABLE MENTION / BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT
Writer Biography - Saadi BELGAID

Bio of the director Saadi BELGAID : Director-Writer

It is his grandfather filmmaker, passionate about 8mm films and movie buff who shared with Saadi, his passion for cinema.

Later became a director of training in the two best Paris international film schools EICAR and ESRA.

He made a film broadcast at the Cannes Film Festival called STRIKE with a cast of French cinema stars: Bernadette Lafont, Sabrina Ouazani, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Moana Ferré.

He released his first film in theaters on the Champs Elysées in Paris called FAUT PAS CROIRE (Don't believe) and continued in the field of shorts films.

Saadi claims to be a craftsman director. He will speak of cinema as an expression of love, where it is about giving everything.

Making a film is a joyful madness.

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Writer Statement

NOTE OF INTENT :

If YOU BURN is part of the hymns to love, the film pays tribute to feminine intelligence, whose subtlety grabs you in a delicate poetry.

YOU BURN is also a film that undertakes to make the couple speak by playing on the 5 senses.

Indeed, we hear a man we do not see, and we look at a woman we do not hear speaking.

It is a series of revelations where we discover the soul of our heroine, through the narration of her lover who carries within him all the teachings she will have shared with him.

In the same way, we discover the fundamental nature of this lover who proves by his homage the depth of his love.

It is also an initiatory journey where our heroine symbolically crosses two banks, a bridge, climbs a staircase as well. Then finds herself in front of a symbol strong in meaning, ironically in perfect opposition to the winter season.

And which in its absolute opens to an unacknowledged testimony of love, at the very moment when we could believe it lost.