The film Marie Madeleine, directed by Haitian filmmaker Gessica Généus and produced by SaNoSi Productions, was awarded the Grand Prix on Saturday at the 40th Cabourg Film Festival. This major distinction crowns the director’s second fictional feature film, following Freda (2021). With this prize, the jury honors a singular work centered on a …

The feature film Marie Madeleine, directed by Gessica Généus, continues its run on the festival circuit. After a notable screening in the Cannes Première section at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, the film has been selected for the Cabourg Film Festival (Calvados), scheduled to take place from June 10 to 14, …

Marie Madeleine, the new fiction feature film by Gessica Généus, shot in Haiti, has been selected for the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Première section. This marks the Haitian director’s second selection at Cannes, following Freda (Un Certain Regard, 2021). Marie Madeleine is the story of an encounter. …

The Étoile de la Scam was awarded to Jean-Marie Gigon on Friday evening for his film Sculpting Memory, an emotional encounter between sculptor Cécile Raynal and Pierre Rolinet, 98 years old, former member of the Resistance and survivor of the camps. The director and producer at SaNoSi Productions shares this …

This year, SaNoSi Productions celebrates its 20th anniversary, twenty years of cinematic adventures, commitments, and independent creations. Over two decades, supporting such a wide diversity of authors, dealing with uniquely personal subjects, has been a great honor. Looking back now on the journey traveled fills us with as much joy …

In this film, awarded the SCAM Star 2025, Jean-Marie Gigon captures the meeting between sculptor Cécile Raynal and Pierre Rolinet, a former resistance fighter and survivor of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, aged 98. During one week, in a makeshift studio in the basement of Pierre’s house in the Doubs region, …