Everybody Loves Jeanne

37 years old Jeanne is really determined to change the world. She brilliantly developed a self-powered sea cleaning machine but during the ceremonial launch, broadcasted live, Jeanne jumps in the water to save her huge invention from sinking into the sea. After this widely-televised fiasco, all her investors pull out and she is about to go bankrupt. Up to her ears in debt, she has no other choice but to pay back what she owes and reluctantly agrees with her brother to sell the family apartment in Lisbon. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate. There is also the Little Ghost, a tiny hairy animated creature who comments on her every move and is actually her witty inner voice that she can’t ever shake off.

Céline Devaux

Céline Devaux is a director and illustrator born in 1987. After studying  literature and history, she graduated from the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Her graduation film, Life and Death of the Great Rasputin, won several awards. Her second short film Sunday Lunch, was selected at Cannes official competition in 2015 and won the César for Best Animated Short Film in 2016. You Will Be Fine, her third short film won the Golden Lion in Venice in 2017. Everybody Loves Jeanne is her first feature film.