• PROGRAMME
• SYNOPSES
• JURY
• WINNERS
• CALL FOR ENTRIES
• GALLERY

There’s a Cockroach in my Cupboard

1. Original Title: Un cafard dans mon placard
2. Author: Thierry Berrod
3. Director: Thierry Berrod, Jamie Robertson
4. Editor: Simon Boardman
5. Photography: Nina Kellgren
6. Music: Alex Stoloff
7. Sound: Mike Donald
8. Producer: Thierry Berrod
9. Production: Mona Lisa Production
10. France
11. 51 min.
12. 2007

Get ready to meet the most amazing creatures! They mostly go unnoticed, be it because they are small or due to our lack of attention, or because they are most active while we are resting. These creatures are surprisingly skilled and simultaneously marvellous and terrifying. Whether useful or pernicious, bold or shy, aggressive or innocuous, their path continuously criss-crosses with man’s. They inhabit our daily living places. They are little domestic monsters that colonise our beds, cupboards, kitchens: termites, dust mites, cockroaches, ants, mosquitoes, and more ….
Imagine what would happen if all these tiny invaders met inside a house that looks just like yours, where you could follow the adventures of this little hidden army for 24 hours. These tiny fauna prosper under our noses; they steal our food, share our bed, destroy our clothes. But they also do us a few favours.
With the help of highly-skilled electron microscopy shots,  this docu-fiction steps into the beautiful and well-kept house of a typical family (father, mother, two children and a dog) going about their daily business, and unveils a tiny world of creatures, which most people find disgusting, but  are also extremely useful.
A yet unseen safari to the frontiers of the invisible.