A young filmmaker returns to the village where she was born – a hamlet in the north of France – to investigate a strange story about a terrorist threat. She starts with members of her own family, and doesn’t have to go much further. The misunderstanding – as it turns out to be – shows above all how alarmist news items and political machinations in the cities can take on a life of their own, deep in the hinterland.
Morgane Dziurla-Petit (1996, France) is a filmmaker based in Sweden. She graduated in Cinema at the New Sorbonne University in Paris and Film Production in Cannes. She gained professional experience working at the Cannes Film Festival and Roy Andersson Filmproduktion in Sweden, where she moved in 2017. Her films are on the borderline between documentary and fiction. Her first short film The Day (2018) was selected by the 41st Göteborg International Film Festival. Excess Will Save Us (2019) was awarded Best Short Film at Tempo Documentary Film Festival (Sweden) and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France). Grab Them (2020) was nominated for Best Swedish short at Göteborg Film Festival 2020. Excess Will Save Us (2022) marks her feature film debut.