Joachim Lafosse’s ‘Six Days in Spring’ Is a Deeply Personal Look at His Childhood and What Happens When “You Stop Belonging to a Family”

French actress Eye Haïdara (The Nannies, C’est la vie!) leads the Belgian director’s new film. She stars as Sana, a mother struggling to provide her 10-year-old twins (Teodor and Leonis Pinero Müller in their film debuts) with a spring vacation. When their plans collapse, she secretly takes them to a luxury villa on the French Riviera owned by her former in-laws. Over six days, joy and anxiety collide as the family hides in plain sight in what can be described as a biographical piece of filmmaking for Lafosse.

“After my parents divorced, my mother had money problems,” he confesses to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the world premiere of Six Days in Spring in competition at the Spanish film fest on Sept. 20. He’s no stranger to the festival circuit with 2012’s…