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Martin Pleure

Martin Cries | Martin weint
Berlinale Shorts 2017
Martin cries. He is alone. He woke up in the morning and all his friends were gone. Disappeared. Just not there. He sets off to look for them. And he searches everywhere, in the city, in the mountains, in the rivers, but he doesn’t find them. That makes him furious. Really furious – really sad. Rage, violence, longing, loneliness. Without fear of great feelings, without fear of one's own courage and without fear of violence, Jonathan Vinel tells a story of love and loss entirely based on elements from the computer game Grand Theft Auto V – beyond all kinds of tawdry notions and with extremely concrete physicality.
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by Jonathan Vinel (Written and Directed by)
with Paul Hamy, Clémence Diard, Sarah-Megan Allouch France 2017 French 16' Colour

With

  • Paul Hamy (Voice of Martin)
  • Clémence Diard (Narrator)
  • Sarah-Megan Allouch (Voice of Louna)

Crew

Written and Directed by Jonathan Vinel
Editing Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Sound Mixing Victor Praud
Sound Editing Lucas Doméjean
Foley Artist Romain Anklewicz

World Sales

AKA Productions

Produced by

AKA Productions

Photos

Jonathan Vinel

© Ph. Lebruman

Born in Toulouse, France in 1988, he studied editing at La Fémis in Paris and has made a number of films with Caroline Poggi, with whom he was invited to Berlinale Shorts. Their film Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film while their joint feature film debut Jessica Forever screened in the Panorama and Eat the Night was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. In 2025, he is returning with Poggi to Berlinale Shorts with Comment ça va? while Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe can be seen as part of the Jubilee Programme “You and I Are Not Alone – Berlinale Shorts Revisited”.

Filmography (selection)

2014 Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe (As Long as Shotguns Remain); short film, co-director: Caroline Poggi 2015 Notre héritage (Our Legacy); short film, co-director: Caroline Poggi 2017 Martin Pleure (Martin Cries); short film · After School Knife Fight; short film, co-director: Caroline Poggi 2020 Bébé Colère (Baby Anger); short film, co-director: Caroline Poggi 2022 Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans (Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It); short film, co-director: Caroline Poggi 2023 Best Secret Place; co-director: Caroline Poggi 2024 Eat the Night; co-director: Caroline Poggi · La Fille qui explose (The Exploding Girl); short film, co-director: Caroline Pogg 2025 Comment ça va?; short film, co-director: Caroline Poggi

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025