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Paloma Sermon-Daï

Director

Paloma Sermon-Daï is a Belgian director. After graduating from the Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles (HELB), she won a selection at the Visions du Réel Festival in 2017 for her short film Makenzy. In 2020, she directed Petit Samedi, a documentary following her brother's struggle with heroin addiction. This first feature film won awards at the FIFF Namur 2020 and the Magritte 2022. In 2023, her first feature film, Il Pleut dans la maison (It's Raining in the House), presented at the Critics' Week in Cannes in 2023, triumphed again at the FIFF Namur, where it won the Bayard d'Or and the Bayard for Best Actor.
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  • Makenzy

    Makenzy

    Documentary

    2017

    20min

    -10

  • It's Raining in the House
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    It's Raining in the House

    Drama, Comedy

    2024

    1h.22min

    -12

    Under a scorching sun, seventeen-year-old Purdey and his fifteen-year-old brother Makenzy are left to fend for themselves. While Purdey cleans houses in ...

  • Petit Samedi

    Petit Samedi

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.15min

    -10

    Damien Samedi is 43 years old. When he was a child in his Belgian village on the banks of the river Meuse, they called him the “Petit Samedi”. To his mother, ...