Winner of Best Film in Encounters |
Primée à la Berlinale
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The award for Best Film in Encounters goes to "We" (Nous) by Alice Diop. Source: Berlinale
La cinéaste Alice Diop, lauréate du Grand prix Encounters de la Berlinale 2021 pour son documentaire "Nous" (We à l’international) ! Inspirée par Les Passagers du Roissy Express de François Maspero, paru en 1989, la réalisatrice originaire d’Aulnay-sous-Bois a repris le RER B avec sa caméra au poing pour y documenter les changements de la banlieue parisienne, 30 ans après. Source: https://lemag.seinesaintdenis.fr/Alice-Diop-primee-a-la-Berlinale-2021
Filmmaker Alice Diop, laureate of the Encounters Grand Prize at the Berlinale 2021 for her documentary Nous (international title: "We"), was inspired by Les passagers du Roissy Express by François Maspero, published in 1989. With a hand-held camera, Alice Diop, who is from Aulnay-sous-Bois, journeyed on the RER B to document the changes in this region of the outskirts of Paris, 30 years later.
Synopsis
The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. Multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker Alice Diop takes us through these suburban spaces and confronts us with some of the faces and stories of which they are composed.
A moving testament to the importance of filming as a process of bearing witness and remembering, Nous is timely in many ways. It is subtle and shrewd in a world that favours shortcuts and easy answers. Justifiably adopting the fragmented structure of a patchwork portrait in order to describe a riven society, Diop displays impressive control of her essay and its impact. In the film’s first few minutes, a deer is observed, through binoculars. A certain sense of awkward, human-generated distance stays with us. Isolation, discrimination and nostalgia for hierarchies, inherited from a monarchical past … Divisions haunt France’s present. But the human urge to give as well as to receive stubbornly creeps into every situation, observed or triggered. Could this be the one thing that still keeps a nation together? Source: YouTube
Une ligne, le RER B, traversée du nord vers le sud. Un voyage à l'intérieur de ces lieux indistincts qu'on appelle la banlieue.
The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. Multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker Alice Diop takes us through these suburban spaces and confronts us with some of the faces and stories of which they are composed.
A moving testament to the importance of filming as a process of bearing witness and remembering, Nous is timely in many ways. It is subtle and shrewd in a world that favours shortcuts and easy answers. Justifiably adopting the fragmented structure of a patchwork portrait in order to describe a riven society, Diop displays impressive control of her essay and its impact. In the film’s first few minutes, a deer is observed, through binoculars. A certain sense of awkward, human-generated distance stays with us. Isolation, discrimination and nostalgia for hierarchies, inherited from a monarchical past … Divisions haunt France’s present. But the human urge to give as well as to receive stubbornly creeps into every situation, observed or triggered. Could this be the one thing that still keeps a nation together? Source: YouTube
Une ligne, le RER B, traversée du nord vers le sud. Un voyage à l'intérieur de ces lieux indistincts qu'on appelle la banlieue.
Des rencontres : une femme de ménage à Roissy, un ferrailleur au Bourget, une infirmière à Drancy, un écrivain à Gif-sur-Yvette, le suiveur d'une chasse à courre en vallée de Chevreuse et la cinéaste qui revisite le lieu de son enfance. Chacun est la pièce d'un ensemble qui compose un tout. Un possible "nous".
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