Before knowing that she would be mistress of ceremony at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Doria Tillier had agreed to shoot her first film, as part of a civil society program for the Administration of the Rights of Performing Artists and Musicians.

This short film will be presented at the festival, as she explains on Friday in "Culture Médias".

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She will not come for nothing.

Actress Doria Tillier will be at the next Cannes film festival, which runs from July 6 to 17, as mistress of ceremonies.

But not only.

She will also present her first film as a director, the short film 

La diagonale du vide

.

It was produced as part of a program launched for Cannes by civil society for the Administration of the Rights of Performing Artists and Musicians (ADAMI).

"I thought of directing as something that I might try to do, but in several years," says Doria Tillier on Europe 1.

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"And then, ADAMI came to offer me to do it. It was an opportunity. It was hard to refuse," adds the now director.

But ADAMI asked Doria Tillier, like other artists, to take part in an imposed exercise.

"We were given a short film to make which was supposed to be 15 minutes long and to be shot in Reunion," she explains.

The film tells the story of a tyrannical TV journalist.

"I am often a little disturbed by certain media"

"She is a journalist who dreams of glory, who really has teeth that scratch the floor and who always wants to create buzz and shocking images," explains Doria Tillier. "She dreams of going to interview Donald Trump because he is probably going to resign. Except that her editorial staff sends her to Reunion Island to report on this running race, the diagonal of fools. She considers it a subject. uninteresting, so she's very frustrated. But she still wants to try to bring shocking images.

The film shows an angry and desperate journalist, often verbally violent with her teams. "This is not my vision of journalism," warns the director. "There are several kinds of journalists, really. But that's my view of some. I'm often a little disturbed by certain media. I find that there is a lot of dishonesty. It surely exists in all circles. And I think these people even don't realize their own dishonesty, because it has become normal for them. "