Ouistreham ** by Emmanuel Carrère French film, 1 h 47 Florence Aubenas took a long time to be convinced. After the success of his survey book The Quai de Ouistreham(Éd. De l’Olivier, 2010), the journalist was very quickly asked to assign the rights, with a […]
A woman of the world * by Cécile Ducrocq French film, 1 h 35 Far from the women forced by networks to prostitute themselves, Marie chose to be a sex worker. She has been doing this activity in Strasbourg for twenty years without hiding it […]
Lingui, the sacred bonds ** by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun French film, 1 h 27 Lingui, in the Chadian tradition, it is the bonds of mutual aid that allow people in difficulty to overcome their ordeals. But what are they worth in a society which marginalizes single […]
Forgiveness ** by Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam Iranian movie, 1 h 45 The death penalty applied in the name of the Talion law and its corollaries, which are “the price of blood” and the forgiveness demanded from the guilty, form the backbone of many […]
Somali director Ahmed Khadar won the Yennenga Gold Standard on Saturday 23 Octobere Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco) for his first feature film The Gravedigger’s Wife. The young 40-year-old director, also of Finnish nationality and whose film is shot in Djibouti in […]
To the life *** by Aude Pepin French film, 1 h 18 Chantal Birman’s passion for her profession has never wavered. At 70, retire him “Tear out the heart”. A liberal midwife, she works at home with young mothers who have just returned home with […]
In Cannes, last July, she danced with her actresses on the red carpet. Too happy to celebrate the selection of her film, Freda, on the Croisette, Gessica Géneus was also eager to forget a little the problems of her country, Haiti, on which fate persists. […]
You have to accept to give time and go on a long journey to taste Drive my car, by Ryüsuke Hamaguchi : the film lasts 3 hours! Like the character in the film, and as its title underlines, you also have to accept to be […]
Of course, in Venice, as in Cannes or Berlin, parity remains a wishful thinking, an objective that is still unattainable, especially when it comes to selecting films, the majority still directed by men. So the organizers try to compensate for this imbalance by the composition […]
” Where are the women ? “, once sang the singer Patrick Juvet. In film festivals, the year 2021 brings a dazzling response. They are everywhere now, and they are taking everything. Palme d’Or in Cannes, Lion d’Or in Venice and, Saturday September 25, the […]
