Besides That, Life Is Grand

Besides That, Life Is Grand

2014 · 23 min

Zoé and Léo are best friends, French twenty-somethings living in London. They work together, they party together, they do everything together. They both like men. Except that the man Zoé likes is Léo. When Zoé is accepted into a grad school in France she realizes that, before she leaves London, she has to tell Léo how she feels about him.

Directed by Astrid Carlen-Helmer

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