The Dalva film is the award-winning direction of Emmanuelle Nicot.
In the film, Zelda Samson plays Dalva (right), who befriends Samia (center) in the children’s home. Over
Emmanuelle Nicot’s award-winning direction from 2022 gets off to a shocking start. Dalvain the film, the police take a 12-year-old, screaming Dalva girl from her home to a children’s home after a medical examination. The neighbor has filed a report of concern about him.
Guided by her father, the child who dresses and applies make-up like an adult woman resists the authorities until the end. He calls Jacques by his father’s first name. The father has been revealed as a monster who has to answer for his actions in front of the court. He is accused of child abduction and incest. Dalva defends her father, who was sent to prison.
– If a woman loves, she has to make love, Dalva, who considers herself a woman, explains the world of thought manipulated by her father in the film.
In Dalva’s opinion, the father just loved her and wanted to protect her from unskilled lovers. He would never hurt Dalva. Or would it still hurt?
Dalva, who constantly moved from one place to another with her father, gets to go to a regular school when she is taken into custody. Adaptation is difficult, and it doesn’t succeed properly. Stephanie branchu, Yle
The new school friends quickly understand from the news that Dalva is a child repeatedly raped by her pedophile father. Dalva doesn’t want to believe the truth. But then the father also admits his crime. When the mother, who has been searching for her daughter for another seven years, returns to Dalva’s life, everything starts to change. Dalva is trying to learn to be a child.
The film is not directly based on real events, but according to the director, it was inspired by them. Nicot has narrated his film in the information material from the emergency shelter for teenagers, which he visited for his previous short film. Nicot was surprised that proven abused children defended their families and claimed they were victims of the justice system.
Dalva is the first feature film by the French Emmanuelle Nicot. Over
The creation of the film was also influenced by the director’s friend’s father, who worked as a youth worker. One day, only a 6-year-old girl became his client. He lived alone with his father. The father was suspected of incest.
– That’s how the idea of Dalva was born. I asked myself: what would that little girl be like as a teenager.
Dalva today at Teema & Femi at 21:30 & Arena. See all TV programs and broadcast times in Telku’s TV guide.
