Filmmaker Statement

KIDZ was born from a desire to create a story that insists on these little childhood dramas which, without further comparison due to the young age of those concerned, become great ones. All my childhood, I built myself around my friendships. They were my pillars and I never gave myself the right to lose them, because that's all I had at that age. I was so emotionally attached to them that for a long time, I would have done everything I could not to lose anyone close to me. But inevitably, we do lose people throughout our lives. The first time you lose a loved one is like falling. Then we get used to it. However, in my early twenties, I again experienced a significant loss, which left me as fragile as when I lost my first people as a child. I then had the desire to create a film around this childhood, this first mourning where our naivety comes to balance the understanding of this pain which is likely to return. Through this film, my 20-year-old dialogued with the 10-year-old I was. We came together emotionally. This film is about mourning, a feeling that we so often try to avoid. Lou will inevitably have to confront herself to it. However, in this film, the theme of mourning is set very close to its opposite pole, so bright: friendship. Indeed, KIDZ is a tribute to these first friendships, so beautiful but sometimes disappointing, as Lou will discover during the day. Finally, KIDZ is about childhood. As we experience many of our “first times” during this period, our emotional landmarks are mostly created at this age. Everything is extrapolated, and seems larger than life itself. When we were kids, many of us found meaning in the daily life in this gloomy suburb through the grandiose side of these friendships. The memory of this childhood carried by the suburbs often haunts me. I remember the boredom, which we flee through our childhood games and inventions. I wanted to pay tribute to the little ones that we were, who tried to avoid pain while our environment confronted us despite ourselves with difficult experiences.