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Affaire Lola, chronique d'une récupération

How did the face of 12-year-old Lola become in one week a symbol taken over by the far right on social networks, crossing Europe, from identity demonstrations in France to stadium stands in Serbia? Six months after the murder of the teenager, “La Fabrique du Lie” reveals how in just a few days an operation of influence and manipulation was orchestrated. For the first time, those close to the victim recount how they experienced this political recovery, as a suffering added to the mourning.

Affaire Lola, chronique d'une récupération

NR 2023
TikTok, l'ombre chinoise

TikTok, the most popular app among young people, has nearly 1.6 billion users worldwide, including almost one in three French citizens. Often seen as a platform for dances, animals, music, and star influencers, it is above all a global success story from China, owned by the company ByteDance. Its content management system remains opaque, even to its moderators. Accused of collecting personal data like other social networks, TikTok is also suspected of sharing that data with the Chinese government and influencing public opinion worldwide.

TikTok, l'ombre chinoise

NR 2023
What Else Grows on the Palm of Your Hands?

The routines of two women fuse together as their similar gestures get repeated over time. Their hands intersect through their shared memory one movement at a time. The daily routine of Hayat in her absolute loneliness builds as she tries to recollect memories of her grandmother. We observe both their lives separately, the gestures of both women seem to be in an ongoing, subtle dialogue. The rhythm of the events slowly forms itself as their days go by. Eventually, the bond between them unravels the motherly love that unites them.

What Else Grows on the Palm of Your Hands?

NR 2023
Baby Joachim Damana, the young ladies of Brazzaville

A precocious sculptor, famous at the age of 15, Joachim Badindamana was born in Congo Brazzaville in 1950. He began by working in wood in the style of Muta Mayola and very quickly won a first sculpture prize and then a scholarship. allowing him to study fine arts in Germany. He made his life between Berlin and Dusseldorf in the 1970s and then turned to creating monumental bronzes before returning to Congo at the invitation of President Sassou Ngesso in the early 1980s. Author of monumental bronze sculptures erected in the public squares of Brazzaville from the 1980s, his emblematic works of the Congolese capital disappeared during the events of 1997. The population recovered the bronze to make pots. For Gastineau Massamba, Les Demoiselles de Brazzaville is an important work for the history of contemporary Congolese sculpture.

Baby Joachim Damana, the young ladies of Brazzaville

9.0 2023
The Prisoner of Wakhan

The Kyrgyz government is offering humanitarian aid to ethnic Kyrgyz roaming the Wakhan Corridor in northeastern Afghanistan. Many inhabitants of this region leave their highland homes in search of a new life. Among those who get the opportunity to move to Kyrgyzstan with their family is Nurulkhak. Despite government support, education and housing, adapting to a new way of life is not easy. The difference in life experiences creates an abyss between locals and newcomers. Nurulkhak realizes that the urban way of life cannot give him the freedom that once accompanied him in nature.

The Prisoner of Wakhan

NR 2023
Blue Files

Like many others, Ander suspects that what his father really suffered in that police station was torture. Seeking to clarify his suspicions, he will discover the Project of investigation into torture and abuse in the Basque Country between 1960-2014 drafted by the Basque Country as part of the Peace and Coexistence Plan. Appalled by the results published in the investigation, he meets the doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists and lawyers who participated in the project, who will introduce him to concepts such as "psychological torture", the "Istanbul Protocol" and "statistical approximation" and will show him the reality of torture in the global north.

Blue Files

6.0 2023