Dans les forêts de Sibérie

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« I told Safy that anything was possible and that it was just a matter of choice. (...) No one has all the answers when it comes to art, but if we were connected to an emotion, it meant we couldn't be off track. I could almost say that Safy composed part of the music because he was a bit like a conductor. It was the first time I worked on a real dialogue between my music and silence. The film had to end in a crescendo, the return had to be powerful, these natural sounds like the cracking of the ice had to absolutely be part of the music, but it was also necessary to leave room for silence. » Ibrahim Maalouf, composer To satisfy a need for freedom, Teddy decides to go far from the noise of the world and settles alone in a cabin on the frozen shores of Lake Baikal. One night, lost in the blizzard, he is rescued by Aleksei, a Russian on the run who has been hiding in the Siberian forest for years. Between these two men who are complete opposites, a friendship will be born as sudden as it is essential. « When I discovered Sylvain Tesson's story, I knew, after twenty pages, that I wanted to make it into a film. It takes a lot of courage to lock oneself away for months in Siberia, in a cabin by Lake Baikal. It's a real adventure! And if Sylvain's book was so successful, it's because, thanks to him, readers could make this journey by proxy. Since it seemed to me that current French cinema was not offering anything like that, I wanted to make the same proposal in images to take the viewer far away. I didn't yet know how I would go about it, but I wanted people, once they entered the theater, to let themselves be carried away to feel things organically. » Safy Nebbou, director