Gabin Documentary Debuts at Cannes Directors' Fortnight
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- Gabin is a documentary directed by Maxence Voiseux that condenses ten years of a rural French boy’s childhood into a sub‑two‑hour film.
- Gabin debuted in the Directors’ Fortnight program at the Cannes Film Festival, marking Voiseux’s first feature‑length documentary.
- Gabin expands on Voiseux’s 2016 mid‑length film The Heirs, which first introduced the Jourdel family and featured Gabin as a background figure.
- Gabin centers on Gabin’s parents—mother Patricia, a cattle farmer, and father Dominique, a butcher—illustrating their contrasting roles on the family farm.
- Gabin is being courted by documentary festivals and arthouse distributors, with potential appeal to non‑fiction streaming platforms similar to works by Nicolas Philibert and Sébastien Lifshitz.
Why it matters: Docu‑fest programmers and streaming services gain a fresh, festival‑validated title that offers sales and viewership opportunities, expanding the market for rural‑life documentaries and raising the profile of French regional stories.
