Anna Cohen-Yanay

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Born in San Francisco, Anna Cohen-Yanay is a screenwriter and director living and working in Paris. A graduate of the University of Paris VIII, their short film Rambam Streety won the Prix Serge Daney in 2018. They co-wrote, among others, Frost by Sharunas Bartas (Directors’ Fortnight 2017) and Swan dans le centre by Iris Chassaigne (Critics’ Week 2022). They collaborated on the screenplay and acted in Que quelque chose vienne by Mathilde Girard, awarded the Georges de Beauregard National Prize at the FID Marseille 2023. Anna is currently co-writing the short films Mystery Ferry with Iris Chassaigne and Wonderwall with Róisín Burns.

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Wonderwall

Northern England, August 1995. Siobhan, 8, and her older brother Rory are waiting for just one thing: to find out whether Oasis or Blur will win the Britpop battle tonight. But Siobhan defies her brother and escapes, finding herself alone in the night. Determined to find a way to watch the battle of the century on television, she wanders the city and plunges into the strange world of adults.

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People Who Drive at Night

August 15, Leila and Paul are separated on a motorway service area. Travelers without a destination, they stay there, in search of comfort and tenderness, trying to escape their loneliness by mingling with that of others, that of people who drive at night.

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2018

Frost

Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. They cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war.

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2017