Sylvia Le Fanu’s feature debut, My Eternal Summer, to be screened at San Sebastián and BFI London
- The drama film follows a 15-year-old visiting her family’s summer house with her parents, for what will be the mother’s final time
Sylvia Le Fanu’s debut feature, titled My Eternal Summer [+see also:
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Le Fanu is a graduate of the Norwegian Film School, and holds a BA in Film and Media Studies from the University of Copenhagen. She also completed the independent film programme 18 FRAMES in Odense. Le Fanu’s previous shorts Abu Adnan (2017) and Amourteur (2020) have played at festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Indy Shorts and Odense.
The script for My Eternal Summer, penned by the helmer herself with Mads Lind Knudsen, follows 15-year-old Fanny and her parents as they retreat to their summer house and embrace familiar routines: reading, swimming and walking. Beneath the quiet simplicity, an unspoken grief lingers – they know it will be her mother’s last summer. As they try to seize the days they have left together, the family navigates the delicate balance between cherishing the present and facing what’s to come.
Kaya Toft Loholt (A Perfectly Normal Family [+see also:
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My Eternal Summer is being produced by Jeppe Wowk for Adomeit Film with support from New Danish Screen, the Danish Film Institute’s talent development programme. It is co-financed by FilmFyn, DR, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje and the European Union’s Creative Europe – MEDIA programme. Katja Adomeit is the project’s executive producer, and TrustNordisk is in charge of its world sales.
The pic will land in Danish theatres on 30 January 2025.
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