Screening of Camille Ponsin's film "La Combattante", November 9

15 November 2022

  • Africa

  • Campus life

For this screening, Inalco presents the film awarded the 2022 Inalco Jury Prize at the 41st International Jean Rouch Festival. The jury chose to award the Mondes en regards prize to the film "La Combattante" for its profound social necessity and human qualities. We were moved by the character's commitment, and hope that her struggle with and for the victims of Darfur will also have an impact on the Inalco audience, an institute whose values and commitment to contemporary migration issues resonate strongly with the film.
La Combattante de Camille Ponsin
La Combattante de Camille Ponsin © Minima production‎

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 18:30 - 21:00
Inalco, PLC (65, rue des Grands Moulins - 75013 Paris) - Auditorium

La Combattante

France | 2021 | 94 min | vostf
A film by Camille Ponsin

Synopsis
Somewhere under the rooftops of Paris, an old lady is waiting for a visitor. For a long time, she was an ethnologist specializing in Darfur, a region that has never left her. The visitors she receives day after day don't come here for tea. What they come for is the crucial help that only this 90-year-old woman can provide. They are survivors of the genocide that has struck the people of Darfur since 2003. Thanks to her knowledge of Sudan, Marie-José can authenticate their stories, enabling them to obtain political asylum in France. During each visit, the old lady's apartment becomes a closed-door exchange of intense truth...

With the presence of :

  • Camille Ponsin, the film's director
  • Marie-José Tubiana, the protagonist
  • Nathalie Luca, Barberine Feinberg and Laurent Pellé, members of the Comité du film ethnographique

Free entry subject to availability.

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