Naked Eye Prophecies
by Elli BENSOUSSAN-DILLLY
65 min - HD - 2025
In coproduction with Mille et Une Films, local televisions from Bretagne and Tënk
With the support of CNC, Région Bretagne, Région Grand Est and Procirep-Angoa
Director: Elli Bensoussan-Dilly
Image: Elli Bensoussan-Dilly, Cécile Bodénès
Sound: Grégory Le Maître, Camille Limousin
Editing: Pascale Hannoyer, Elli-Bensoussan Dilly
Animation: Adeline Faye, Elli Bensoussan-Dilly
Music: Félix Chaillou-Delecourt
Sound editing: Nicolas Cadiou, Kinane Moualla
Mixing: Kinane Moualla
Color-grading: Gautier Gumpper
Producers: Emmanuelle Jacq (Mille et Une Films) and Milana Christitch (Ana Films)
Production team: Inès Lumeau, Claire Jan Kerguistel, Pauline Suplisson
SYNOPSIS
When I was twenty, I was told I had a fifty-fifty chance of inheriting a cancerous genetic mutation. A fifty-fifty chance is a bit like an imaginary illness. Then, I began to share my life with an imaginary being. Looking within my family, I explore the personal myths we create in absence of clear predictive medicine, while it is still groping its way forward. The uncertainty that these sciences seek to bring to light and the presence of fatal illness as a probability often bring me back to the same question: to believe or to know?
THE DIRECTOR
Elli Bensoussan-Dilly was born in 1993 and lives in Douarnenez. Initially intending to pursue research in social sciences, she focused on "home-based" anthropology, studying Western festive cultures.
Then, she developed a passion for documentary filmmaking while studying it during her master's degree at Lussas in 2020. Her graduation film, Maisons de sable (Houses of Sand), was selected for the Première Fenêtre section of Cinéma du Réel.
In 2022, she co-founded Cinéribines, a filmmakers' association that offers film and sound creation workshops in Douarnenez and the surrounding area. In 2025, she completed her first feature-length documentary, Prophéties à l’œil nu (Naked eye prophecies).
