It´s Raining in the House

Paloma
Sermon-Daï

Paloma Sermon-Daï was born in Namur, Belgium on 14 July 1993. She graduated in image studies at the Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles. Her graduation film "Makenzy" was selected at Visions du Réel in 2017. In 2020, she directed her first feature documentary, "Petit Samedi". The film had its world premiere at the Berlinale Forum 2020, and won numerous awards, including: Best Documentary at Magrittes du Cinéma, the Bayard d'Or at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, the Prix diagonales at the Festival Premiers Plans Angers and Best Documentary Award at the Athens International Film Festival.

In the midst of a scorching summer at a tourist lake, Purdey and her brother Makenzy teeter between adolescence, love, and survival. Purdey cleans at a hotel while Makenzy resorts to robbing tourists. Alone, they lean on each other in a tender tale, perhaps marking the end of their youth.