The Devil's child / Copilul Diavolului

Film Presentation:
December 1989. The Ceausescu regime collapses. The world discovers the horrible extent of this dictatorship, especially images showing hundreds of thousands of children confined and abused in orphanages. Marion is one of these orphans, a devil's child, as she calls herself. A French couple adopted her when she was 6 years old. Today, at the age of 37, she has just given birth to her first child; this event brings her back to her own past, when she was abandoned the day she was born. Marion wants to retrace her past, along with Elisabeth Blanchet who has photographed Ceausescu's orphans. We will follow her in her quest, in a road movie across Romania, as the country prepares to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the dictator's fall.

Film's Website: www.kanarifilms.fr/Kanarifilms/Lenfant_du_diable.html

Director's Bio-Filmography:
Biography Ursula Wernly Fergui is an independent Swiss and French director, author and cinematographer, based in Paris. In her early years in Switzerland, she studied history and sociology and worked as a teacher in Swiss public schools. Although most recognised for shooting narrative documentaries and news reports, she also films corporate media. Ursula Wernly Fergui frequently collaborates as a cinematographer with all main French television programs. Filmography Main documentaries: - The devil's child - 52min, TLT, 2014. - Les rescapés de la guillotine - 52min, 13ème rue, 2011. - Zürich 4 - Paris 18 - 52min, Public Sénat, 2006. - Les crampons de la discorde - 52min, Arte, 2004 Documentaries and reports for the main French TV channels (Arte, TF1, France2, France 3...)