Before/After (Avant/Après), French-Estonian writer, director and actor Manoël Dupont’s debut feature about two men who bond over their baldness and travel to Istanbul for a hair transplant surgery, will world premiere in the Proxima Competition of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) next month.
The film is about Jérémy and Baptiste. “Their shared baldness takes them to Istanbul, where clinics claim to reverse the course of time,” reads a plot description for the film. “Amid shifting winds and silent unrest, they search for meaning in a city not their own. Day by day, a fragile bond forms, in the hope of change.”
Before/After was written and directed by Dupont and produced by Boris Baum and Clara Brandt for Brussels-based production company Les Films de la Récré. Paris- and Marseille-based Outplay Films is handling sales on the movie.
“The idea of transformation...
The film is about Jérémy and Baptiste. “Their shared baldness takes them to Istanbul, where clinics claim to reverse the course of time,” reads a plot description for the film. “Amid shifting winds and silent unrest, they search for meaning in a city not their own. Day by day, a fragile bond forms, in the hope of change.”
Before/After was written and directed by Dupont and produced by Boris Baum and Clara Brandt for Brussels-based production company Les Films de la Récré. Paris- and Marseille-based Outplay Films is handling sales on the movie.
“The idea of transformation...
- 6/17/2025
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Outplay Films has acquired world sales rights to Manoel Dupont’s Before/After, ahead of its world premiere next month in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima Competition.
The feature debut of French-Estonian actor Dupont, Before/After follows two men in their 30s, who experiencing baldness; and are brought together by the possibility of a hair transplant.
It is produced by Boris Baum for France’s Les Films de la Recre, and stars Baptiste Leclere and Jeremy Lamblot, playing characters with their own first names.
Dupont previously directed 2023 short Oil Oil Oil, which launched at Clermont-Ferrand short film festival.
Based in Paris and Marseille,...
The feature debut of French-Estonian actor Dupont, Before/After follows two men in their 30s, who experiencing baldness; and are brought together by the possibility of a hair transplant.
It is produced by Boris Baum for France’s Les Films de la Recre, and stars Baptiste Leclere and Jeremy Lamblot, playing characters with their own first names.
Dupont previously directed 2023 short Oil Oil Oil, which launched at Clermont-Ferrand short film festival.
Based in Paris and Marseille,...
- 6/4/2025
- ScreenDaily
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