The cell divisions
by Anaïs Sartini
70 min
in coproduction with Vosges TV, concept assistance of EMS and writing and production assistance of Région Grand Est
SYNOPSIS
At 16, I told my mother I wouldn't have children. Twenty years later, on April 25, 2021, in Paris, my girlfriend Mathilde and I participated in a demonstration for "IVF for all." We then decided to have a child using the ROPA method—Mathilde would carry the child conceived from my egg. This type of IVF is illegal in France. How could I have imagined that one day I, too, would so ardently desire to have children? Why am I so attached to the idea of parenthood? As the seasons pass, the past resurfaces.
LA RÉALISATRICE
Anaïs Sartini graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Production from 3IS, the International Institute of Image and Sound, in 2008, and more recently with a Master's degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. She gained her first production experience at Independent Films in Sydney, Australia.
She subsequently worked primarily as an assistant director in Paris, notably alongside Japanese director Nobuhiro Suwa and the Franco-Italian duo Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach.
Anaïs has been working as an independent director since 2010. The theme of gender and sexuality runs through her associative commitment and her cinematographic work, as evidenced by her short films made within Waa Films, some of which have been selected in international festivals, or her documentary Spasibo, relating the invisibility of homosexuals in Russia, which obtained the Special Prize for Human Rights at the eponymous festival of Amnesty International in Paris in 2012. Anaïs is also developing a feature film project, Dans la ville de Dany, which depicts the identity quest of a young woman in the contemporary feminist milieu.
