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Golden Anchor Competition for Debuts

"While finally too slight to set commercial venues on fire, this Directors’ Fortnight title does suggest Harrison is an expert creator of mood and ambiance and has a young voice that could be further developed."

Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Blaise Harrison
  • France, Switzerland 2019
  • 98 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

What could be more combustible than adolescence? How about coming of age right next to the Large Hadron Collider, where protons are literally crashing into each other to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang? Teenage P.A. and his group of friends - who attend high school mere meters from CERN - start to witness strange phenomena manifesting in their tiny French-Swiss border town, and soon their whole world seems to be on the verge of turning inside out.

Emerging Swiss filmmaker Blaise Harrison’s feature debut conjures a world at the crossroads of fantasy and quantum physics.

Feature Debut


  • Director Blaise Harrison
  • Production Estelle Fialon, Lionel Baier
  • Script Blaise Harrison, Mariette Désert
  • Cinematography Colin Lévêque
  • Editing Isabelle Manquillet, Gwénola Héaulme
  • Music Èlg
  • Festivals Cannes
  • Actors Thomas Daloz, Néa Lüders, Salvatore Ferro, Léo Couilfort
  • Source Les Films du Losange, Paris