Synopsis
At primary school in Ponge, a nine-year-old girl tries, as best she can, to play football with the boys, who won’t pass her the ball. Annoyed, she wanders off on her own and comes face to face with a group of colourful young girls who are about to shake up the established order in the playground. They call themselves: Les Mousses!
About
Guillaume Schmitt-Bailer
He was born on 26 October 1998 in Valence, in the Drôme department. In 2018, he moved to Paris and enrolled at the Cours Florent to pursue a career in the arts. Since then, he has written and directed a self-produced short film almost every year.
Among his most recent works are Heureux(2022) and Nicole (2023), both finalists at the Nikon Film Festival. Heureux is a coming-of-age film that explores social conditioning and has won multiple awards at film festivals. As for Nicole, it is an intimate arthouse film named after his grandmother. In 2023, he enrolled at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris. The following year, he directed Les Mousses, produced by Minuit Cinq, which received support from the CNSAD as well as a ‘Hors Cursus’ grant from the FEMIS. The film won the Phénoménales de Femme et Cinéma competition and was broadcast on France 3. It also received the Manifest prize at that edition and will therefore be distributed by Manifest at film festivals.
