DO NOT ASK FOR YOUR WAY

By Déborah Hassoun



A series fan since her parents got cable TV, Déborah Hassoun has Punky Brewster and Angela from My so called life for early dramaturgy teachers. To improve, she attends the screenwriting class at the UQAM (University of Québec Montreal) and enters the CEEA (European Conservatory of Audiovisual Writing). She then works for television as a scriptwriter, codirects a documentary and founds La Mafia princesse, the most thrilling collective writing experience for her, ever. But it’s on her own, with her ally Fortitude, that she applies for the competitive exam of the Atelier Scénario (Script Workshop) at the FEMIS. There she develops the feature script which will finally give her the desire to direct. But before, she tackles her first short : Do not ask for your way (2019), produced by Les Films du Cygne.

TV :
. OCS (France)
. TV5 Monde

French Festivals:
. C'est pas la Taille qui Compte in Paris (April 2019) - Audience Award
. 1st Pépinière Festival in Paris (May 2019) - Audience Award
. 8th Les Clayes du cinéma Festival (June, 2019) - 1rst Jury Award, Audience Award, Best Actress Award for Sophie de Fürst
. Des Courts en Fëte (June-August 2019)
. International Film Festival of Contis (June, 2019)
. 32th International Film Vidéo Festival of Vébron (July, 2019)
. 35th Cinema Meetings of Gindou (August 2019)
. 16th Film Festival of L'isle-Adam (September 2019)
. 6th International Film Festival of Saint-Jean-de-Luz - Young Jury Award and Audience Award
. 32th Film Festival of Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux (October 2019)
. 3rd Short Films Festival in Dinan (October 2019)
. Short Film Festival in Armagnac (October 2019)
. 23rd International Short Film Festival of Aigues-Mortes, ECRAN LIBRE 2019 (November 2019) - Grand Ecran pour Tous Award and Jury'Special Mention 
. Short Festival of Maisons-Laffitte and Marly-le-Roi (France, March 2020)
. Festival FILMORAMAX in Lyon (France, 2020)

International Festivals:
. Inshort Film Festival 2018 (Nigeria, December 2018)
. 12 Months Film Festival (Romania, January 2019) - 2nd Best Actress for Sophie de Fürst
. 3rd Aswan International Women Film Festival (Egypt, February 2019)
. Festival La.Meko in Landau (Germany, April 2019) - Best International Short Award
. Athens International Digital Film Festival (Greece, April 2019)
. CIFF - Creation International Film Festival (Canada, May 2019) - Best Director Award, Best Actress Award for Sophie de Fürst,
and Best Editing Award

. 2019 Fear no Film Festival (USA, Juin 2019) - Grand jury honorable Mention
. Bengaluru International Short Film Festival (India, August 2019)
. Slum Film Festival 2019 (Kenya, August 2019)
. 2019 COLCOA French Film Festival (USA, September 2019)
. Jahorina Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2019) 
. 31rst Girona Film Festival (Spain, September 2019)
. Aasha International Film Festival Nashik (India, September 2019)
. 2019 Great Lakes International Film Festival (USA, September 2019)
. 17th Mediterranean Short Film Festival of Tangier (Morocco, October 2019)
. 7th Festival Les Enfants terribles (Belgium, October 2019)
. Canadian Labour International Film Festival - CLiFF, Toronto (Canada, November 2019)
. Fiaticorti Film Festival XX (Italy, November 2019)
. 21th Soria International Film Festival (Spain, November 2019)
. 40th Short Film Festival of Villeurbanne – special screening (France, November 2019)
. Sound and Image Challenge International 2019 Shorts (Macau, December 2019)

Special screenings :
. Program « Friday'shorts » in Bourg-en-Bresse & Gex (France, February & March 2019)
. 3 screenings in the theater Philippe Noiret in Les Clayes-sous-bois (France, March 2019)
. Salt Lake City Audiorium (USA, October 2019)
. Theater Le Navire in Aubenas (France, November 2019)
. Theater le Clap in Boliène (France, 2020)
​. Cinémanie Auxerre (France, 2020) 

Synopsis : After 6 years of analysis, Inès, 31 years old, wishes to leave her analyst. When confronted with the magnitude of the task, she decides to get help… from another analyst.

Comedy - 17' - 2K - 2,39 - Coulor - France 2019

Casting : Sophie de Fürst, Youssef Hajdi, Judith Siboni, Béatrice de Staël
Director : Déborah Hassoun
Screenplay : Déborah Hassoun
Production : Jonathan Hazan
Cinematographer : Thomas Rames
Costume Designer : Sarah Monfort
Set Designer : Michel Carmona
Sound : Thomas Tymen
Editor : Baptiste Ribrault
Sound Editor & Mixer : Sylvain Réty
Composer : Pierre-Antoine Durand

Produced by Les Films du Cygne.
With the supports of the CNC, the ADAMI, the PROCIREP and the ANGOA.