After sliding back into the docu realm, French Canadian filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles has returned to fiction with Petite rose (formerly titled Fleur bleue) – a co-production between Canada, Belgium and Bugaria. Filming began this week in Montreal. This was selected as part of the Venice Gap-Financing Market in 2023 and received some coin via Eurimages earlier this year. Dulude-De Celles had her fiction feature debut Une Colonie (2018) premiere at the Berlinale. Colonelle films’ Sarah Mannering and Fanny Drew will produce. We’re guessing this works with themes of themes of displacement, immigration, nostalgia, and what is ultimately gained and lost when uprooting.… Read the rest
