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S’il vous plaît madame, répondez-moi !

Between the wars, more than eight hundred young Polish women came to Indre-et-Loire to work as farm maids. Their story has come down to us thanks to the letters exchanged by their social worker, Julie Duval. Louis Clergeau, an artisan photographer, whose pictures are scattered throughout this film, gave them a face and a body. This film bears witness to this little-known part of French immigration and tells the bitter fate of these immigrants in the Touraine countryside, whose story still shakes us today.

S’il vous plaît madame, répondez-moi !

NR 2021
Our NHS: A Hidden History

As we emerge from a global pandemic that has turned our world upside down, David Olusoga explores the hidden history of the nurses, doctors and health workers who, for more than 70 years, have been coming to Britain from overseas to serve in the NHS. Without them the NHS would have been in danger of collapse - not least during the current COVID crisis - but from the very start the story of this beloved British institution has been intertwined with one of the most divisive social and political issue of the age, immigration. The people who came to this country to work in the NHS have found themselves fighting battles they neither sought nor expected.

Our NHS: A Hidden History

1.0 2021
The Story Won't Die

THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to protest and process what is currently the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of people since WWII. The film is produced by Sundance Award-winner Odessa Rae (Navalny). Rapper Abu Hajar, together with other creative personalities of the Syrian uprising, a post-Rock musician (Anas Maghrebi), members of the first all-female Syrian rock band (Bahila Hijazi + Lynn Mayya), break-dancer (Bboy Shadow), choreographer (Medhat Aldaabal), and visual artists (Tammam Azzam, Omar Imam + Diala Brisly), use their art to rise in revolution and endure in exile in this new documentary reflecting on a battle for peace, justice and freedom of expression. It is an uplifting and humanizing look at what it means to be a refugee in today’s world and offers inspiring and hopeful vantages on a creative response to the chaos of war.

The Story Won't Die

NR 2021
Letter H

Lettera H tells the story of Patty "Todaro" and Seba "Aceti". They love each other, despite the age difference. Seba is 37 years old, with a past made of petty crimes, and with Patty they share a passion for vintage 80's. Patty, to celebrate Seba's upcoming birthday, organizes a theme party with her closest friends. For the occasion, Seba has polished with great love a second-hand FIAT 127, a super mini car bought at a court auction. It's a seemingly perfect evening, everything goes as it should. At the end of the party, the two protagonists are secluded in a wood outside the city and, in the dark, as the anguish begins to rise, they feel observed by someone or something evil.

Letter H

5.3 2021
Collapse: The Dissolution of the Soviet Union

In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid bankruptcy, an abortive coup d'état and the change of power revealed to the world the pre-existing debacle. The Soviet power and state disappeared. From then on, all rules are abolished. What happens when a state disappears and no longer finances or manages the territory under its control?

Collapse: The Dissolution of the Soviet Union

8.5 2021
Une certaine tendance du cinéma documentaire

Towards the end of 2021, Jean-Louis Comolli was invited by Citéphilo-Encuentros Filosóficos anuales de la región Hauts-de-France to present his latest book, Una cierta tendencia del cine documental (A Certain Trend in Documentary Cinema). Unable to travel to Lille due to his health, Jacques Lemiére (member of the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Lille, and head of film art at Citéphilo) decided to visit him and interview him at his home in Paris, so that he could then present this dialogue at the conference. Recorded and edited by Ginette Lavigne (a friend of Jean-Louis but also an editor and co-director of several of his works), we are treated to this exceptional conversation, in which Comolli, despite his fragile health, shines with all his sagacity and reflective originality, giving us almost an hour of his brilliant thinking.

Une certaine tendance du cinéma documentaire

NR 2021