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THE TIES THAT BIND US

| 2025 – 105′ – DRAMA, FILMS & LITERATURE.
Written by: Carine Tardieu, Raphaële Moussafir, Agnès Feuvre.
Based on the Book by: Alice Ferney.
Directed by: Carine Tardieu.
Starring: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pio Marmaï, Vimala Pons, Raphaël Quenard, César Botti, Mélissa Barbaud, Catherine Mouchet, Marie-Christine Barrault, Florence Muller, Eric Verdin.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2024.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release. |

They say “it takes a village,” a point that The Ties That Bind Us illustrates with great delicacy and compassion. Sandra is a middle-aged, free-thinking woman who runs a bookstore and lives alone. Early one morning her doorbell rings. She tentatively opens the door to find her very pregnant next-door neighbor standing on the landing with her husband and six-year-old son, Elliott. Her water’s broken and they’re off to the hospital. Could Sandra possibly look after the boy for just a few hours? However, things don’t go exactly as planned. And what unfolds will change the lives of both Sandra and Elliott forever. Carine Tardieu‘s seventh feature film pierces the many layers of what it means to be a child, to raise a child, to love a child and to live a life, and the countless bonds that are unconsciously, continually woven over time to create a “family”… no matter what form that structure may take.