Scala Films

More than just a production house

Scala films is a commitment!

Scala Films is more than just a production house; it is a commitment. The company was created out of my desire to support both established and emerging authors and directors in bringing their projects to life.

Just like the "Scala Project" that was launched in collaboration with Frédéric Biessy in 2018, which encompasses La Scala Paris, La Scala Provence, Scala Music label, Scala Films is open to all genres and forms of art. It serves as a vessel for all thoughts and currents that flow through and inspire artistic creation.

Mélanie Biessy

Independence
& freedom

This ambitious project, for which I ensure complete independence, emphasizes freedom of choice and action. Scala Films equips artists with the necessary tools such as residency and writing spaces, as well as screening and presentation venues. A new chapter in the company's story has already begun with CG Cinéma, with whom Scala Films has partnered on various promising projects, including Kirill Serebrennikov's upcoming film, the Disappearance.

The first chapter of Scala Films is written under the starry auspices of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival with three films in competition:

Filmlovers!, Arnaud Desplechin (2024 Official selection: Special screening)
Misericordia, Alain Guiraudie (2024 Official selection : Cannes Première)
It's not me Leos Carax (20242 Official selection: Cannes Première)

Happiness!

Serebrennikov

The disappearance

Biopic, Drama, Historical
Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, written by Kirill Serebrennikov
With August Diehl

Synopsis

Adaptation of "The Disappearance of Josef Mengele" written by Olivier Guez. The years of escape of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who found refuge in South America at the end of World War II. Entirely told from the point of view of the fugitive, evolving from Paraguay to the Brazilian jungle, the work paints a harsh and complex portrait of an executioner trying to escape his fate, while the world around him evolves and becomes aware of the Nazi crimes.

Desplechin

Filmlovers!

Documentary, Drama
By Arnaud Desplechin
With rançoise Lebrun, Micha Lescot, Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer's coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.

Guiraudie

Misericordia

Drama
By Alain Guiraudie
With Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand

Synopsis

Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn...

Carax

It's not me

By Leos Carax
With Denis Lavant, Leos Carax, Adam Driver

Synopsis

For an exhibition, which never took place in the end, the Pompidou Center asked the filmmaker to reply in pictures to the question: Where are you at, Leos Carax? He devises a reply, full of interrogatives. About him and "his" world. I don't know. But if I knew, I would reply that...