When Déni inherits a small patch of land in the wild, beautiful valley of Pankissi, he sees a chance to finally build the house in the trees that he's dreamed of since he was a boy. But nothing in the rugged Caucasus is ever simple. Returning to a village just across the Chechen border where he was born - a place he barely knows - Déni stirs up old feuds, buried family dramas, and above all, the question everyone keeps asking: when, and with whom, is he finally going to get married?
Déni Oumar Pitsaev was born in Chechnya in 1986 and grew up between Grozny, St Petersburg and Almaty. He studied at Sciences Po in Paris before turning to cinema. He later obtained a bachelor's degree in film directing at the INSAS (National Institute of Performing Arts) in Brussels, followed by a master's degree in audiovisual arts at the LUCA School of Arts, St. Lukas Campus.
Déni is an alumnus of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy and the IDFAcademy. His debut feature documentary, Imago, will have its world premiere in competition at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. He is currently developing the script for his first feature film, Maspalomas.
Based between Paris and Brussels.
Triptyque Films
Need Productions
Authors: Déni Oumar Pitsaev, Mathilde Trichet
Director: Déni Oumar Pitsaev
Production Manager: Nicolas Lebecque
DOP: Joachim Philippe, Sylvain Verdet
Sound Engineer: Marie Paulus, André Rigaut, Joseph Squire
Editors: Laurent Sénéchal, Dounia Sichov
Un Semaine de la Critique
Competition
