Street educators, Alex and Stéphanie take five out-of-school teenagers to cross the Mediterranean and reintegrate them through the values ​​of the sea. But when they arrive at the port, they come across Riton, their skipper, a former cop from BAC (Police Crime Squad), who has left everything to flee the suburbs. These young people are his worst nightmare. Forced, they all find themselves embarked on the same boat for a fifteen-day sea trip. One thing is certain, after this Crossing, they will no longer have quite the same vision of the world...

starring
Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Audrey Pirault, Alban Ivanov

a film by Varante SOUDJIAN

France, 2022, fiction, 1h45, Comedy

3rd Film

Title: LA TRAVERSÉE
Type: Feature Fiction
Genre: Comedy
Language: Français
Country: France
Year of production : 2021
Year of release: 2022
Visa Number: 155.055
Agreement: Oui
Color : Color

CAST
Alban IVANOV..................................................... Riton
Lucien JEAN-BAPTISTE...................................... Alex
Audrey PIRAULT......................................... Stéphanie
Moncef FARFAR.............................................. Rayane
Thilla THIAM........................................................ Sam
Lucie CHARLES-ALFRED....................................... Léa
Mamari DIARRA................................................ Mahdi
Enzo LEMARTINET............................................... Polo

Executive Producers.................... Aïssa DJABRI, Farid LAOUHASSA Producer................................... Victor HADIDA
Line Producer............................. Denis PENOT

Director....................... Varante SOUDJIAN
Screenplay, adaptation, dialogues....................... Varante SOUDJIAN & Thomas PONE (with Julien Chauvard)
Cinematograp.................................................. Cyril BRON
Editing........................................................... Brian SCHMITT
Music............................................................ Loïc FLEURY
Additional Music.......................................... Stéphane KRONBORG
Production Design........................................... Isabelle DELBECQ
Costumes Design........................................................... Cécile BOX
Sound.................................................................... Frank DUVAL, Renaud GUILLAUMIN, Jean-Paul HURIER
Casting Director........................................................ Manon LE BOZEC
First Assistant Director.................................. Yves LAMIGEON
Production Manager........................................ Bernard BOLZINGER

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION
Vertigo Productions

a coproduction by
VERTIGO PRODUCTIONS,
DAVIS FILMS
FRANCE 2 CINÉMA
LES BÊTES SAUVAGES
LA VÉRITE PRODUCTION
SCOPE PICTURES

Associate Producer
CHAPKA PRODUCTION
Avec le soutien du
TAX SHELTER DU GOUVERNEMENT FÉDÉRAL BELGE via SCOPE INVEST

with the participation of
CANAL +
CINÉ +
FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS
C8

DISTRIBUTION
France: Metropolitan Filmexport

French Release: 22/06/2022

WEB
* https://en.unifrance.org/movie/54096/la-traversee
* www.unifrance.org/film/54096/la-traversee
* www.cinecomedies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DP-la_traversee.pdf

AWARDS / FESTIVALS
* Selection /// Festival du film francophone de Grèce (Greece, 2022)
* Selection /// Institut français de Mauritanie - https://institutfrancais-mauritanie.com/film/la-traversee/