On the eve of two events that mark an emotional and rapid departure from all that is familiar, Muriel and Sam are thrown together in a chance encounter.
With her mother's funeral the next morning, Muriel, the daughter of a French father and African mother, struggles to escape her sorrow and unrest.


Shot in black and white and set in Marseilles, Pour la Nuit opens with a death. Muriel, a beautiful young woman of mixed-race, has just lost her mother. She escapes from the tragedy in a taxi whose driver warns her of "hot-blooded men" that frequent the district where she asks to be dropped off. She meets a man in a down-town nightclub and they share one night of passion and stark honesty. In the early morning they part - Muriel to attend her mother's funeral, the man to attend his wedding.

This evocative short film, by French/Ivorian filmmaker Isabelle Boni-Claverie, is a passionate depiction of beginnings and endings.



Isabelle Boni-Claverie | France 2005 | 26min | 35mm | French with English subtitles | 15


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Prix / Awards / Festivals

2007 | Africa in Motion | EDINBURGH, Scottland | www.africa-in-motion.org.uk
* CONTEMPORARY WOMEN DIRECTORS
* UK Premiere

Locarno (Swiss)
Sélection

Journées cinématographiques de Carthage (TUNIS, Tunisie)
Sélection

Festival international du film d'Amiens (France)
Sélection
3 prix

Festival du film d'Afrique et des îles au monde
Sélection

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (France)
Sélection

African New York Film Festival (USA)
Sélection

Quintessence (OUIDAH, Bénin)
Sélection

Fespaco (OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina faso)
Sélection

Festival de Montréal - vues d'Afrique (MONTREAL, Canada)
Sélection

Panafricana - Rome (Italie)
Sélection

Festival des cultures africaines - plein Sud (COZES, France)
Sélection

Festival de Rousset
Nominee
Prix du Jury

African Film Festival de Milan (Italie)
Sélection

Côté Court - Pantin (France)
Sélection

Festival International de Filmets - Badalona
Sélection

Capetown World Cinema Festival (South Africa)
Sélection

Festival Panafricain Cannes (France)
Sélection

Africa Taille XL (Belgique)
Sélection

Festival de Tarifa (Spain)
Nominee

Etats généraux du cinéma noir (Paris, France).
Nominee

FICA
Best actress (Isabelle FRULEUX)