Simon P.R. Bewick

Acting

Simon P.R. Bewick

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Play Dead! poster
6.0

If there is one person Matthew Lancit can’t get out of his mind, it is his uncle Harvey. Dark rings around his eyes, pale, blind, his legs amputated. Like Harvey, the filmmaker also suffers from diabetes. He has the disease under control, but one question is always nagging at him: How much longer? His long-term (self-)observation reliably revolves around fears of infirmity and mutilation. He translates the feared body horror into film, stages himself as a zombie, vampire, a desolate figure. Lancit playfully anticipates his potential decline, serving up a whole arsenal of effects which – as video recordings prove – go back to his youth. It is not for nothing that the “dead” in the title is also reminiscent of “dad.” Because “Play Dead!” also negotiates his own role as a father.

Play Dead!

2023

In the Open poster
9.0

About roughly 130 men are imprisoned in the Detention Center of Casabianda, Corsica. Most of them were convicted of child abuse. The inmates spend their last few years of imprisonment working the fields of this wide agricultural domain.

In the Open

2017

Tatie Lica la bossue poster
NR

Eva flies back from France expecting a simple funeral. What she gets is a hunchbacked grandma, a furious village priest, and a coffin that just won’t fit. With the church refusing to bend and the body refusing to straighten, Eva is forced to navigate small-town absurdities, family pressure, and funeral logistics that defy common sense.

Tatie Lica la bossue

2026

In Session, Do Not Disturb poster
NR

Out in the suburbs around Paris, a specialized teacher, Josiane, is taking care of five children failing at school. There, they share their fears, joys and sufferings at school. 'In session do not disturb' introduces us to their world while they will learn to learn.

In Session, Do Not Disturb

2020

Zou poster
9.5

Zou tells the story of a man with a missing leg who moves forward more intensely than an able-bodied man. The amputated leg, a phantom limb that he can still move in his mind, is the pivotal point of this story. At the same time a trace of the war that made him lose most of his family members and forced him to flee his country, at the same time a brake on his exodus that made walking painful and more laborious than any of his fellow travelers, it is also the fulcrum for his integration into a new territory.

Zou

2023

Le sentier des absents poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le sentier des absents

2024

Primo da Cruz poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Primo da Cruz

2022

What Do Dragonflies Dream of? poster
NR

Summer in the suburbs. Between two massive towers, aeroplanes trace thin threads of cotton. Two young sisters run away. Dream? Reality? The film unfolds like a philosophical tale, in which off camera voices punctuate the thoughts of children on the verge of growing up. Somewhere between a Western and a fantasy film, this waking dream marks the passage from childhood to adolescence.

What Do Dragonflies Dream of?

2018

What Do Dragonflies Dream of? poster
NR

Summer in the suburbs. Between two massive towers, aeroplanes trace thin threads of cotton. Two young sisters run away. Dream? Reality? The film unfolds like a philosophical tale, in which off camera voices punctuate the thoughts of children on the verge of growing up. Somewhere between a Western and a fantasy film, this waking dream marks the passage from childhood to adolescence.

What Do Dragonflies Dream of?

2018

Danika, lord of dawa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Danika, lord of dawa

Littoral normand, amour insolent poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Littoral normand, amour insolent

Le jour où un zèbre devint tigre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le jour où un zèbre devint tigre

2025

Le jour où un zèbre devint tigre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le jour où un zèbre devint tigre

2025