‘Fire Fire Fire,’ the Coming-of-Age Story of a ‘Modern Witch,’ Boarded by Rise & Shine, Trailer Debuts (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Annika Pham Talent-driven doc sales outfit Rise & Shine has boarded “Fire Fire Fire” (“Feu Feu Feu”), the feature debut of Swiss rising voice Pauline Jeanbourquin (“Dusk”), due to world premiere in the national competition strand of Nyon’s Visions du Réel docu festival.

Variety has had exclusively access to the international trailer. The poetic and captivating coming-of-age story of a young girl with healing talents, is produced by high-profile Geneva-based Close Up Films, credited for the 2023 Swiss Oscar entry “Thunder” and as co-producer of the Oscar-nominated “I Am Not Your Negro.” “I enjoy working on first features, meeting a new voice, exploring and questioning what it means to direct, figuring things out together.

It’s a responsibility I find deeply fulfilling,” producer and Close Up Films’ co-owner Flavia Zanon says. “Pauline reached out to me in 2019, and I was instantly drawn to the types of stories she wanted to tell and felt I could be the right partner to help her bring them to the screen.

I like the way she looks at the world, how she is able to find grace in the smallest of things.” Rise & Shine’s festival manager Anja Dziersk adds: “It’s one of the greatest challenges for any documentary filmmaker to capture genuine and authentic coming-of-age stories.