Mum Don´t Love Me No Mo´

Grégory
Lucilly

Grégory Lucilly is a writer-director from Reunion Island with a unique career trajectory. Initially trained in marketing, he spent his internship year in 2004 at Pathé Distribution's international marketing department as part of his studies in the ESC Reims Tema program (now Neoma Business School). Deeply imbued with his childhood passion for cinema, he chose not to return to business school and began writing independently In 2006, he was selected for the 48-hour Writing Marathon at the Bourges International Screenwriters Festival (now in Valence), but it was only in 2009 when he returned to Reunion Island that he was able to write and direct his first short film, L'Epouse et l'enfant , co-produced by RFO Réunion (now Réunion La 1ère). He then self-produced, wrote and directed the very short comedy Pizza in 2011 and the moving Le Baiser des gens perdus in 2015, a film shot on 35mm. Back in Paris, Grégory Lucilly spent a year taking Eve Deboise's training course called "Writing a feature film on Spec" (La Femis, Séquence7) and running cinema workshops in prisons with the Zargano association, a member of the national "Passeurs d'Images" scheme. During this period, he also intensified his knowledge of directing, officiating first as 2nd then 1st assistant director in Paris on commercials (Haribo “Voice Kids”) and in Reunion Island on mainstream TV series (CUT! season 2 to 5). In 2017, the Rotary Club Florebo entrusted him with writing and directing the opening film for the 3rd Rotary Peace Trophies ceremony, the short film Les BÝtises . The following year, Sébastien Folin awarded him the Audience Award and the Quality Award for Soundtrack at the Short Film Festival Réunion Edition Cinékour Talents for his new short film, the romantic comedy La 0arFKe du 6inge , broadcast in prime time on Antenne Réunion, the leading local television channel in the Indian Ocean, and on Air Austral's long-haul flights. After directing a medium-length film about the prison world, $ttends et 6urYis , released in 2022, he is currently working on a 90min creative documentary &e Tue Me ne suis pas , a choral film about three women with disabilities shot over seven years and scheduled for release in 2026. Both projects have been pre-purchased as co-productions by Canal+ Réunion for national broadcast. They are also supported by Région Réunion, DAC-OI, Conseil Général de La Réunion and CNC Outre-mer.

Thomas (15), a teenager from Reunion Island, dreams of winning a breakdancing competition and moving to mainland France. But when his mother suddenly evicts him and his sister Audrey, their world collapses. Placed with their estranged father and left to fend for themselves, they must face abandonment and rebuild their lives.