"One Long Winter Without Fire"
Original title: "Tout un hiver sans feu"
Original language: French
Country: Switzerland, Belgium
Genre: Psychological drama
Directed by: Greg Zglinski www.gregzglinski.info
Written by: Pierre-Pascal Rossi
Running time: 91 min
Premiere: September 2004
Release date: 19 January 2005

Press pack (fr.) Tout_un_hiver_sans_feu.zip

61. VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2004:
«Signis Prize»
«CinemAvvenire Award»

«Signis Prize» for best full feature film
«CinemAvvenire Award» for best first feature film

«Prix Cinema Suisse 2005»
Swiss Films Movie Award for "Best Fiction Film"

- Bozen City Award for best film and Audience Award at International Film Festival in Bozen (South Tirol)
- Brown Bunch at 35. Lubuskie Film Summer 2005 at Lagow (Poland)
- Alternative Critics Prize at 57. Festival in Locarno 2005 (Switzerland)
- Gold Fish main prize at XXXII Ińskie Film Summer 2005 (Poland).

Winter is harsh in the Swiss Jura region and it seems interminable to Jean and Laure, who lost their little girl in a fire that devastated their barn a few month earlier.

Unable to cope with her loss, Laure undertakes a treatment in a clinic. Trying to forget his feeling of guilt, Jean thinks about selling the farm. Finally, despite his fear of the fire, he goes off to work at a foundry in the near town. There he meets some Kosovar refugees, among them Labinota, whose husband went missing during the war. She is stong, courageous and sensitiv. Thanks to her and her brother Kastriot, Jean discovers another way of living with his fears and heartbreak. By sharing their pain, little by little, Jean and Labinota come closer to each other. At the same time Laure is getting better and wishes to meet Jean.

Jean:
Laure:
Labinota:

Kastriot:
Valérie:
Aquilino:
Roger Mabillard:

 Aurélien Recoing website
 Marie Matheron
 Gabriela Muskała website
 Blerim Gjoci
 Nathalie Boulin
 Antonio Buil
 Michel Voïta

directed by:
original script:
adaptation and dialogues:



cinematography:
editing:
music:

sound:

art direction:
costumes:

 Greg Zglinski website
Pierre-Pascal Rossi
 Barbara Grinberg
 Claudio Tonetti
 Pierre-Pascal Rossi
 Greg Zglinski
 Witold Płóciennik
 Urszula Lesiak
 Jacek Grudzień
 Mariusz Ziemba
 Luc Cuveele
 Michał Kosterkiewicz
 Pia Gans de St-Pré
 Carole Faure

Producers:
Jean-Louis Porchet i Gérard Ruey

Production companies:
CAB Productions SA (Switzerland) www.cabproductions.ch
Mars Entertainment (Belgium)

co-production with:
Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)
RTBF (Télévision belge)
ARTE
Telewizja Polska SA (Polish public television)

Distribution Switzerland: Filmcoopi Zürich AG www.filmcoopi.ch

Distribution Belgium: Imagine film distribution www.ifd.be

World sales:
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises Srl
www.adrianachiesaenterprises.com