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SIMPLY DIVINE
PUR ȘI SIMPLU DIVIN

• Director: Mélody Boulissière, Bogdan Stamatin
• FRANCE, ROMANIA / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 14’ / Romanian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Editing: Billie Belin, Annabelle Basurko, Nina Gerolt
• Music: Pierre Oberkampf
• Cast: Canlandırma Animation: Charlotte Arene, Andrei Berculescu, Dorel Margarit, Cosmin Tudor Sîrbulescu Anlatanlar Narrators: Anna Florea, Bogdan Stamatin, Ina Dimitriu, Ionuț Cosmin Grigore
• Producer: Marc Faye
• Production Co.: Novanima Productions
• World Sales: Novanima Productions

2024 IDFA Special Mention 13+
2024 DOK Leipzig Mephisto Audience Award
2025 PIAFF Paris First Film Award
2025 İsmailiye Jury Award

1939. A soldier follows a woman. Their love story begins. Two years later, the woman becomes a refugee, the soldier is called to the battlefield and their love story dissolves in the war. 2014. During a long interview, the woman remembers her past. The secrets from a forgotten time are revealed for the last time. What remains from a love story after three quarters of a century and a World War? Simply Divine is an experimental short animation film based on a true story.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.