Ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024, this event, presented by the French Embassy in Ireland and the Alliance Française Irish Network as part of First Fortnight Mental Health Festival 2024 aims to raise awareness on sport, its values and benefits.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion exploring links between sport and mental health.

Synopsis

A true sports story, the film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his rider Pierre Durand, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian.

At the beginning of the 1980s, abandoning a promising career as a lawyer, Pierre Durand devotes himself to his passion: show jumping. With his fathers backing, he gambled everything on a young horse who no one else had any faith in: Jappeloup. The horse has many flaws but also remarkable poise and abilities. From competition to competition, horse and rider progress and impose themselves in the horse-riding world leading them both to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles (1984) and then in Seoul (1988).

Prix Lumières 2014: Best Actor for Guillaume Canet

César 2014: Best Emerging Actress for Lou de Laâge

Anne LE CONIAT

Mental Coach at Frances’s National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (INSEP), and Performance Coach for riders at the French Institute of Horse and Riding (IFCE).

Anne Le Coniat is a trainer and coach for high-level executives at Frances’s National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance - INSEP (training department). She regularly coaches company executives and their teams in their personal and professional projects.

She has a varied background: a degree in Economics, national coach and then director of high-level management at the French Golf Federation, she trained and coached the French Ladies' and Men's teams for 15 years. She then worked as a consultant for the Egyptian Golf Federation for 2 years.

Now, for the past 5 years, she has been helping riders at the French Institute of Horse and Riding (IFCE) to achieve top-level performance, particularly in dressage for riders pre-selected for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

She also holds an ESSEC Master's degree in Management and Business Strategy and is fluent in English and Spanish.

Dr. Olivia A. HURLEY

B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D, C. Psychol. Ps.S.I.

Academic Lead in Sport + Performance Psychology at Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT); Chartered Psychologist with the PSI; Accredited Sport Psychologist with Sport Ireland 

Dr. Olivia A. Hurley is the Academic Lead Lecturer in Sport and Performance Psychology at the Institute of Art, Design + Technology (IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland). Olivia holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Psychology, an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from University College Dublin (UCD). Olivia is a Chartered Psychologist [Psychological Society of Ireland; PSI]. She is also a member of the PSI’s Division of Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology, and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES)]. Olivia is one of Sport Ireland’s accredited sport psychology consultants. In her applied role, Olivia works with top athletes and performers to help them enhance their performances while also prioritising their well-being. Olivia has had numerous academic peer-reviewed papers and book chapters published, as well as speaking at many conferences and on various media outlets. The first edition of her text - ‘Sport Cyberpsychology’ - was published in 2018 (by Routledge; the 2nd edition is due out in the early 2024). Her eBook, ‘Brave Action: Sport Psychology for Life’ was published in February 2021 (see DrOliviaHurley.com for a free copy of this resource). A former international sprinter, Olivia is passionate about all things sport, psychology, performance, and technology-related (see: @DrOliviaHurley).