Marie Frering

Born in 1960 in Alsace, Marie Frering is a writer, director and producer. In 1983, she made her theatrical debut, first as an actress (at the Théâtre du Marché aux grains and with Pascal Varley), then as director with La Montagne brûle (Paysage sans titre after Gertrude Stein, Gespräch im Gebirg by Paul Celan, Les sept premiers chants de l'Enfer by Dante). She also worked as a broadcaster for Radio France and produced radio documentaries for Radio Suisse Romande. From 1994 to 1997, in Sarajevo, she coordinated a European aid program for the population, run by the Mission Locale de Strasbourg, under the EU's ECHO program, with a humanitarian objective during the war, followed by economic reconstruction. This experience is reflected in the radio documentary Mémoires en charpie and the book L'Ombre des montagnes. Assistant director for documentary films, mainly with Damien Fritsch, she directed Premonition, her first feature film, completed in 2012. The film was shot in Georgia, a world...