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Earendel — affiche

Earendel

2026Medium-length film · 42 min

Éloïse, manager of the matchmaking agency “Soleil,” organizes weekend meetups.
A new group of participants arrives at the house for one of these weekends, only to quickly discover that unusual activities are taking place there.

Starring

Clélia Beaumont, Alessandro Biacca, Chrystal Boursin, Anya Bri Malyugina, Charlotte Darragon, Simon Dei, Pauline Faure Avias, Lucie Langlais Vignon, Sylvain Lecompte, Daniel Pop

Written & Directed by

Zoltán Mayer

Director of Photography

George Lechaptois

Earendel
Earendel
Earendel
Earendel
Earendel
Earendel
68 Ways of Loving — affiche

68 Ways of Loving

2026Feature film · 1h 28min

Thirteen stories, structured around the five Greek forms of love, weave a mosaic of forbidden passions, playful flings, and quiet devotion. From stolen glances to irreversible goodbyes, these fragments reveal that despite life's fractures, love remains the ultimate force connecting our destinies.

Starring

Charlotte Darragon, Fabien Di Domenico, France Renard, Alexandre Pelle, Ludmila Donn, Lisa Renaux, Badr Boukikaz, Maud Vincent, Ilana Waysberg, Daniel Pop, Clémence Bressolier, Camille Du Manoir, Virginie Naudillon, Tristan Montandreau, Manon Lheureux, Adil Laboudi, Chrystal Boursin, Marine Berlanger, Vladimir Mijatovic, Cristal Steimen, Nina Barbès, Corrine Mighirditchian, Marilou Nézeys

Written & Directed by

Zoltán Mayer

Director of Photography

George Lechaptois

68 Ways of Loving
68 Ways of Loving
68 Ways of Loving
68 Ways of Loving
68 Ways of Loving
68 Ways of Loving
68 Ways of Loving
68 Ways of Loving
68 Ways of Loving
Pop — affiche

Pop

In ProductionFeature film

In the exaggerated Millo household, sisters Margot and Thérèse live under the weight of their mother Kirstie's 35-year-old secret, which is now destroying her health and their fragile family harmony. The arrival of Yiyi, a flamboyant Chinese actress, triggers the inevitable explosion of this secret, shattering bonds and forcing everyone to confront hidden truths.

Written by

Zoltán Mayer

Startup Nation — affiche

Startup Nation

In Production — Series 8 × 52′

An 8×52 dramatic comedy set inside The Lift, a radically new Paris incubator founded by mogul David Glass to find the French startup capable of rivalling the American tech giants.

Created by

Charlotte Darragon

Written by

Charlotte Darragon & Zoltán Mayer

Zoltán MayerPhoto © Anthéa Cintract

Writer — Director

Zoltán Mayer

Zoltán Mayer is a French multidisciplinary artist, known as a screenwriter, director, photographer, editor and acting coach. Of Hungarian descent through his father and French through his mother, he first studied Chinese before turning to theatre and writing.

He has directed several films, including Voyage en Chine (2015), his first feature, starring Yolande Moreau — a film that earned numerous nominations and awards at major festivals, with Yolande Moreau's performance singled out at the Magritte Awards (more on this below). He also co-wrote, edited and co-directed the documentary Le Sens de l'âge (2011), which received the Étoiles de la Scam award.

As a private acting coach, Zoltán has worked on more than 80 films with actors such as Agathe Rousselle, Aure Atika, Aïssa Maïga, Irène Jacob, Camille Japy, Fatou N'Diaye, Veronika Varga, Solène Hébert…

Alongside his film career, Zoltán Mayer is also a photographer, with works published in The New York Times and exhibited internationally. He published his first novel, La Chair du Tigre, in 2021, a finalist for the Athéna Literary Prize.

Notable Works

Voyage en Chine

Voyage en Chine is the first feature film written and directed by Zoltán Mayer. Yolande Moreau earned a Magritte Award nomination for her precious, heartfelt performance alongside international Chinese actress Qu JingJing. The film received several awards: TFO Audience Award at Festival Cinemania Montréal (best first feature), Audience Award at the French Film Festival of Romania, and both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Detour Film Festival in Padua, Italy. Produced and distributed by Haut et Court, the film drew more than 270,000 admissions. Shot in the Sichuan region, this intimate story follows a mother's mourning journey in the footsteps of her son, who died in an accident.

“Ambitious and luminous” — La Voix du Nord
“It could be tragic; it is light and funny, wonderfully delicate and almost comforting” — Libération

La Chair du Tigre

La Chair du Tigre is Zoltán Mayer's first novel, published in 2021 by Anne Carrière and reissued in 2023 by Le Livre de Poche. It tells the story of Luxi Ming, a gifted 12-year-old girl who leaves Beijing for Nice and finds herself facing Jade's bullying, in a story blending school violence with a journey of self-discovery. The novel was a finalist for the Grand Prix littéraire Athéna.

George Lechaptois

Director of Photography

George Lechaptois

George Lechaptois has been a director of photography for over thirty years, lending his eye to more than eighty films and commercials. He is the cinematographer on Zoltán Mayer's films, including Earendel and 68 Ways of Loving.

He has also worked with some of the most distinctive voices in French cinema, among them André Téchiné (Les Âmes sœurs, Les Gens d'à côté), Rebecca Zlotowski (Belle Épine, Une fille facile, Les Enfants des autres) and Alice Winocour (Augustine, Maryland, Proxima).

About

La Rebelle Production

La Rebelle Production is an independent production company based in Paris. We hold one deep conviction: a work always begins with a vision — that of a writer-director. Our craft is to defend it. We stand alongside filmmakers through ambitious screenplays, the highest artistic standards and stories that question our times and our humanity. To carry each film from its first intuition to its audience — to move, to inspire, to leave a mark: this is what drives us.

Alongside cinema, we develop premium series, driven by the same freedom and the same artistic ambition.

Charlotte Darragon

Founder & Producer

Charlotte Darragon

Charlotte Darragon is a film producer. In 2026 she produces Earendel, a 42-minute medium-length film, and 68 Ways of Loving, a 1h32 feature.

She is the founder and director of La Rebelle Connect, an artistic R&D centre dedicated to training, professionalising and connecting emerging professional artists — a project selected three consecutive years by the startup incubator of Publicis chairman Maurice Lévy for its ambition and its innovation.

She is also an actress for film, television and theatre. Her screen credits include Visions by Yann Gozlan, Karaoké by Stéphane Ben Lahcène, Dans la cuisine des Nguyen by Stéphane Ly-Cuong and the France 2 mini-series Bardot by Danièle Thompson.

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