''Despite the Night'' (original title: ''Malgré la nuit'') is a 2015 French-Canadian

experimental film Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many experimental films, parti ...

directed by

Philippe Grandrieux Philippe Grandrieux (born 10 November 1954) is a French film director and screenwriter. Life and career Grandrieux was born in Saint-Étienne. He studied film at the INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle) in Belgium. He exhi ...

Cast

* Kristian Marr as Lenz *

Ariane Labed Ariane Labed (born 8 May 1984) is a Greek-French actress and film director. She is known for her feature film debut in ''Attenberg'', for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and appearing in Helen Edmundson's film ''Mary Magdalene'' in ...

as Hélène *

Roxane Mesquida Roxane Mesquida (born 1 October 1981) is a French-American actress and model based in Los Angeles. Mesquida grew up in Le Pradet, a little town located in southern France. Her mother, writer Françoise Mesquida, is French/Spanish and her father ...

as Lena *

Paul Hamy Paul Hamy (born 7 January 1982) is a French actor and model. He started his career early as a model, working for Elite Model Management Elite Model Management (MM) refers to two independent chain modeling agencies that originated as one in Par ...

as Louis *

Johan Leysen Johan Leysen (19 February 1950 – 30 March 2023) was a Belgian actor. He appeared in more than 130 films and television shows from 1977. He starred in the film '' De grens'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Canne ...

as Vitali * Sam Louwyck as The man with metallic voice * Aurélien Recoing as Paul *

Gabrielle Lazure Gabrielle Lazure (born 28 April 1957) is an American-Canadian actress. She has appeared in more than sixty films since 1981. Selected filmography References External links * 1957 births Living people Actresses from Philadelphia C ...

as The mother * Lola Norda as Lola

Release

The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in October 2015. It was screened at the AFI Fest in November 2016.

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