POPPY
Nouvelle Zélande / 2022 / 98 min / DCP / VOSTF / Comédie Dramatique

Réalisation : Linda Niccol

Editing : Jonathan Woodford-Robinson
Music : David Donaldson, Plan 9, Steve Roche, Janet Roddick
Production : Alex Cole-Baker, Robin Laing

Cast : Libby Hunsdale (Poppy), Seb Hunter (Luke), Ari Boyland (Dave)

Cannes Ecrans Séniors Award 2024

A young woman with Down syndrome assumes she entitled to live a life like anyone else yet the person she trusts most puts her in the “disability” box forcing her to find support where she can and to employ secret strategies to achieve her goal of an independent life. Her ambition to become a motor mechanic – starting with the apprenticeship promised by her late father – is stalled by her super protective brother and it’s not until she teams up with an ex- school friend who needs his car repaired that her plans progress.

Linda Niccol

Linda was born in Otaki (New Zealand). She has written and directed four short films and a range of promotional videos. Two of her shorts have screened at festivals in New Zealand and overseas. Her co-written feature film Second-Hand Wedding was a breakout success in New Zealand making it into the Top 10 New Zealand films at the box office. She has published two collections of short stories, and her writing has been broadcast and widely anthologized. Poppy is Linda's first feature film.