Le Jour des Cendres
a film by Bénédicte Bonheur
France / 2025 / 25 mins / colors
short film in development
Last day of Carnival, Ash Wednesday. February 1976. Saint-Esprit. Martinique.
After living in mainland France for several years under the BUMIDOM scheme, Liéna returns to her loved ones, prostrate in the back of the hearse bringing back the body of her younger sister who died in mainland France. The arrival at the family home makes for a painful reunion. The time of mourning will be that of a sad realization...
of Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique (development aid, production aid), CNC (Fonds Images de la Diversité), Sud region(development aid).
Winner of the Bourse Cinémartinique
La Ruches Gindou Cinéma residency / Talents en court residency / GREC workshop