Screening of the documentary "L'audience, dans les coulisses de la justice d'asile", by Yaël Goujon

Screening-debate in the presence of the director and people involved in supporting asylum seekers.
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L'audience, dans les coulisses de la justice d'asile © EMAYA Productions / LCP-Assemblée nationale‎

What are the cultural, linguistic and legal challenges of asylum justice? Join us for a discussion between asylum justice experts, whether jurists or interpreters, with the director of the first documentary filming hearings at the Cour nationale du droit d'asile (CNDA) - a court still little known to the general public, which processes almost 70,000 asylum applications a year.

L'audience, behind the scenes of asylum justice, Yaël Goujon, 52 minutes, 2024

The Cour Nationale du Droit d'Asile (CNDA) is France's biggest court in terms of the number of cases handled (nearly 70,000 per year). Yet it is also the least known to the general public. This film is a first, since never before has the Ministry of Justice authorized a camera to film CNDA hearings.

About the documentary 
"In this little theater of the human condition, everything is played out in a matter of minutes. This is the applicants' last chance, since those who are here have already been rejected by OFPRA (L'office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides). Their state of tension and stress is at its peak. Opposite them, judges who are simply doing their job."

With this documentary, Yaël Goujon deciphers the decisions of this asylum justice deemed too lax for some, too harsh for others. It gives us a better understanding of France's migration policy - an electoral theme that becomes more prevalent every year - but also humanizes these asylum seekers who are too often viewed solely from a statistical angle.

The screening will be followed by a discussion in the presence of Yael Goujon (director), Shoaib Said (court interpreter and professor of Pachto at Inalco), Pauline Hot (Presiding Judge at the CNDA), Camilia Mourragui (Rapporteur at the CNDA) and Guillaume Landry (legal director of France Terre d'Asile) ; moderated by Coralie Klipfel (Judge-Assessor at the Court and Lecturer in Public Law at Inalco).