Rimowa – Le Sentier by Otman Qrita
A co-production with Iconoclast
Rimowa has been filming travel for decades. The suitcase crossing continents, airport concrete, the low raking light of early morning. Le Sentier does the opposite. This brand film stops where others accelerate: on the platform. In the suspended space between two trains.
French-Moroccan photographer and director Otman Qrita carried this idea all the way through. In his vision, waiting is not a parenthesis in the journey: it is its heart. Alassane Diong, Yassine Stein, Chloé Lecerf, Issa Perica: four presences, four singular emotions, born of departure or arrival. Strangers who briefly share the same platform before scattering onto different tracks.
The setting: Trétien station, in the Swiss canton of Valais. A mountain stop served by a regional train winding through larch forests. Shot on 16mm, the film inherits that same groundedness: the grain of the film stock gives flesh to light, a texture no algorithm can quite reproduce.
16mm
Shooting on film for a brand project means refusing the easy way out. Every reel costs, every shot is considered. 16mm imposes an economy that paradoxically enriches everything: heightened presence, living light, humanity in every grain. On the platform at Trétien, it felt like the only option.
Le Trétien
Le Trétien station as a setting. This Valaisan village has something timeless that fits perfectly with Otman’s universe: the idea that every departure deserves to be fully lived. The kind of place where waiting is anything but ordinary.
A co-production
Le Sentier grew out of a collaboration between Iconoclast, the Paris production house known for its demanding auteurs, and Imaginastudio. A partnership built around a shared conviction: that a director like Otman Qrita deserved a landscape equal to his precision, and the means to film it according to his vision.
The Cast
Alassane Diong
Yassine Stein
Chloé Lecerf
Revealed by Tirailleurs alongside Omar Sy, nominated at the 2024 Césars for Best New Actor. Since then, building steadily La Fièvre on Canal+, Patience produced by DJ Snake. A presence that doesn’t need to raise its voice to carry weight.
Franco-Moroccan rapper trained at the École de la Cité, he moves from the French hip-hop scene to the screen with the same ease. His EP Hayat, his time with Lomepal, then Planète B by Aude Léa Rapin. A face between two shores, who knows the weight of a departure.
A dancer trained at the Paris Conservatoire, spotted by chance in the metro for her first film. Of Franco-Beninese origin, she moves through Suprêmes and Cédric Kahn’s Le Procès Goldman before establishing herself as one of the most precise actresses of her generation.
Revealed in Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables — Palme d’Or, Cannes 2019. Since then, building a filmography without compromise: Claire Denis’s Avec amour et acharnement, Bis Repetita. An actor who chooses his platforms well.
