Whatever it Takes

A film by Pierre Amstutz Roch

NATIONAL PREMIERE / France / Comedy / 15:33 min / 2019


Stéphane, 50, loses his job. Desperate to get a new job, he makes up a plan with his wife Fiona to take down his rival. Their bad luck and clumsiness won’t make it easy..


Festivals and Awards:

Short to the Point February 2019 (Bucharest, Roumania) – Best Film Award | FILMETS Badalona Film Festival (Badalona, Spain) | Les Hérault du Cinema et de la Télévision (Cap d’Adge, France) | A World of Dark Comedy Film Festival (Hamilton Hill, Australie) | CineGlobe Festival (Geneva, Switzerland) | ShortCup Film Festival (Brazil) | Calzada de Calatrava Festival (Spain) | Madrid Film Festival FCM-PNR (Spain) | Meudon’s Humor Short Film Festival (France) | Sacramento French Film Festival (Sacramento, USA) | Funcinema Festival (Mar del Plata, Argentina) | Rabat Comedy International Film Festival (Morocco) | Les Avant-Premières de Cosne-Sur-Loire (France) | Film Festival Les Courts du Vendredi Soir (France) | Short to the Point (Bucharest, Roumania) | Short Form – International Short Film Festival (Serbia) | Certamen El Pecado (Spain) | Postira Seaside Film Festival (Croatia) | Festival des Anges (France) | West Nordic International Film Festival (Norway) | Festival Eurydice du court-métrage (France) | Portland Comedy Film Festival (USA) | SMR13 Film Festival (France) | Festival International du Film de Comédie de Liège (Belgium) | Curtas Film Fest (Spain) | FICVI Festival de Internacional de Curtmetratges Vila-Seca (Espagne) | Enkarzine (Spain) | The Atlanta Comedy Film Festival (USA)


Directed by: Pierre Amstutz Roch | Cast: Lionel Abelanski, Phillipe Duquesne, David Salles, Camille Japy, François Nadin, Jacqueline Corado, Isabelle Caillat | Written by: Pierre Amstutz Roch | Director Assistant: Matthias Castegnaro | Cinematography: Mathias Zivanovic | Sound: Masaki Hatsui | Production Manager: Guillaume Rizo | Production: Olivier Berlemont, Emilie Dubois (Origine Films – France), Emmanuel Gétaz (Dreampixies – Suisse), Christophe Thiery, Lionel Dray (HRCLS – France) | Make up: Marie Goetgheluck | Costumes : Natalie van der Meulen | Production Design: Clémence Hamel | Editor: Denis Camelin Sound Editor: Etienne Curchod | Mix: Etienne Curchod | Music : Maxime Hervé