Virginie Surdej

Фильмы

Голубой кафтан
Director of Photography
Все меняется в отношения портного средних лет и его жены, когда у него появляется новый красавец-ученик.
Dark Heart of the Forest
Director of Photography
Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince her to make a child together. Nikolaï is convinced that he can handle any problem and wants to avoid at all costs that an adult thwarts his plans. Camille and Nikolaï flee together from the home and isolate themselves in the woods. In the heart of this gloomy, mysterious forest, Nikolaï will have to face his first feelings and learn to become a man. Soon, he feels that there are many things he cannot control.
Jezioro Słone
Director of Photography
At the age of 64, Helena announces her intention to pursue sexual experiences with other men much to the shock of her husband of 40 years. A powerful exploration of late-life desire and emancipation.
Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel
Director of Photography
The end of an eight-year upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.
Dreams by the Sea
Director of Photography
Ester (16) lives a safe but mundane life, in a small town on an island together with her religious and conservative parents. One day, when she’s in Sunday school, she meets Ragna, a girl who has just moved to the same small town with her alcoholic mother and her 8 year-old brother. In Ragna, Ester sees what she has been looking for her whole life. Unaware that Ragna sees the exact same thing in Ester, and especially Ester’s father. The attraction of opposites makes them best friends. Together they dream about getting away from their boring life on the island, but soon they realize that it’s only their own self that they want to escape from.
Walter Hus, a Musical Journey
Director of Photography
During his thirty-year career, Walter Hus, a Belgian composer and pianist, has taken a thousand musical faces. While he wanted to compose a new work, a crisis blocked his creation. During an exchange with his therapist, he comes to an existential question: "Who am I musically? » Through the portrait of this composer, as abundant as it is fascinating, the film aims to give access to his creative process and thus to the endurance and beauty of creation.
Ритмы Касабланки
Director of Photography
История харизматичного бывшего рэпера, который начинает учить хип-хопу молодежь из низших слоев общества. Организовав свой класс, он позволяет ученикам в полной мере выражать себя, лишь иногда давая им советы.
Адам
Director of Photography
Абла — владелица местной домашней пекарни в Касабланке, где она живёт с 8-летней дочерью Вардой. Когда Самия, молодая беременная женщина, стучится к ней в дверь, Абла ещё не представляет, что её жизнь навсегда изменится.
Наши матери
Director of Photography
Гватемала, 2018 год. Вся страна следит за судом над офицерами, которые развязали гражданскую войну. Многочисленные жертвы делятся своими показаниями, а молодой антрополог Эрнесто занимается идентификацией пропавших без вести. Эта работа заставляет его вернуться к поискам своего отца, который был партизаном и пропал во время войны.
Приют
Director of Photography
15-летний скальпер в Кабуле мечтает о Болливуде, пока Советы не заставят его стать государственным учреждением.
Приднестровье
Director of Photography
От беззаботного лета к неумолимой зиме мчит время компанию друзей из самопровозглашенного государства Приднестровье. На первом плане – упрямая девушка Таня и влюбленные в нее молодые мужчины.
By the Name of Tania
Cinematography
The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez tell the story of a young woman who winds up in the clutches of forced prostitution when her initially hopeful attempt to escape the constrictions of her village goes wrong. Step by step, she is robbed of her moral and physical integrity. The film reconstitutes a space of dignity and returns voice and identity to a fate formally made nameless. With its powerful imagery, the girl’s traumatic odyssey embodies the destruction of life in a capitalist world in connection with horrific natural devastation.
Razzia
Director of Photography
Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.
In Syria
Director of Photography
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
Wolf and Sheep
Director of Photography
In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.
Every Song a Story
Cinematography
Over centuries, lay songs have had a central place in Norwegian culture. This film is about a small community, high up in the mountains near Hardangervidda, where this musical tradition is understood and continued to this day.
Every Song a Story
Co-Writer
Over centuries, lay songs have had a central place in Norwegian culture. This film is about a small community, high up in the mountains near Hardangervidda, where this musical tradition is understood and continued to this day.
Next Year
Director of Photography
Clotilde and Aude are 18. They have always been best friends, growing up together in the same small village in the South of France. Despite their differences, they have a strong and exclusive friendship. With their contrasts they attract each other, and they seem to be enough for one another. But Clotilde, looking for something else, decides to leave to study in Paris the following year, after the baccalaureate. She takes Aude along with her in this departure far from their roots. Refusing to admit that their paths are separating little by little, Clotilde and Aude persuade themselves that their friendship can survive anything.
Sing Lingeling
Director of Photography
In a classroom in Telemark, five little girls carry on Norwegian cultural heritage in their spare time. In the film, the five happy and bright girls convey song and life joy, language and tradition knowledge together with Agnes Buen Garnås.
Linda & Ali: Two Worlds Within Four Walls
Director of Photography
Irritated by Catholicism, Linda, an American-based, Blonde Caucasian, falls in love with Qater-based Ali Al-Saigel, adopts the Islamic faith, and gets married. She follows her new faith to the letter, and subsequently gives birth to seven children (four daughters and three sons), brings them up according to true Islamic dictum's, and reflects on her 20-year married life, her children, as well as her reaction when her husband indicates that he wants to re-marry.