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The 5th edition of FIFAC – Amazon-Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – opens its doors from October 10 to 14, 2023 in Guyana. If you cannot make the trip to Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, the Overseas portal offers you a selection of documentaries and web series accessible immediately and free of charge, to watch from the comfort of your sofa.
Overseas la 1ère • Published on October 10, 2023 at 7:44 p.m., updated on October 10, 2023 at 7:54 p.m.
The start of the fifth edition of the FIFAC in Saint-Laurent du Maroni is approaching. The opening evening will take place in the Transportation camp, on October 10, 2023, at 6 p.m. in Guyana (11 p.m. in Paris). This year, FIFAC has dozens of documentaries scheduled from 14 territories in the Amazon and the Caribbean, 25 in official competition, 6 prizes, professional meetings, a three-half-day seminar, but also round tables, master classes and many other activities on site.
In the other side directed by Iván Guarnizo –
FIFAC Grand Prize – Amazon-Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – 2022 / France Télévisions best documentary.
A few days following peace talks with the FARC guerrillas began, Iván’s mother died. Before her death, she expressed her desire to no longer see anyone suffer the tragedy she experienced. In fact, she had been held hostage in the Colombian jungle for 600 days. During her captivity, she was allowed to write a diary, in which she described the worst two years of her life. Thanks to reading the diary, his two sons locate the places, decipher the names and set off on a long journey through the jungle to find the guerrillas who guarded it. The latter formed a close relationship with her, and in particular a jailer who behaved with her as with her mother. They follow their mother’s path, wondering if they will be able to forgive.
So calculate directed by Emanuel Licha.
Selected at FIFAC – Amazon-Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – 2022 – In competition in the documentary category
Zo reken, a documentary by Emanuel Licha • ©Les Films du 3 Mars Zo reken “shark bone” is the nickname given in Haiti to the Toyota Land Cruiser, a powerful all-terrain vehicle, very popular with international humanitarian organizations omnipresent in the country since the earthquake of 2010. Ten years later, in a country in turmoil and more blocked than ever, a zo reken is diverted from its usual use to become a mobile space for meetings and discussions between Haitians. ne.s. No more foreign humanitarian workers can board. The driver leads the conversation with his passengers, everyone. your citizens of Port-au-Prince, while he tries to make his way between the barricades and the demonstrations. We talk regarding the state of the country, neocolonialism and humanitarian aid, and anger is growing: once morest the current president who has lost the confidence of the population, once morest the unfulfilled promises of aid from the international community, and once morest the violence suffered by the most vulnerable. Zo reken is a road movie and a talking machine.
Negro lyrics directed by Sylvaine Dampierre
Selected for the Amazon-Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – FIFAC 2022 – In competition in the documentary category
Paroles de nègres a documentary by Sylvaine Dampierre • ©Athénaïse Production
On Marie-Galante, a small island off the coast of Guadeloupe, cane still shapes the destiny of men and sugar is still made with their sweat and in the noise of machines. Devoting all their strength and hopes to the survival of their old sugar factory, which is running out of steam, the workers of Grand-Anse lend, for the duration of a film, their voices to the forgotten words of their slave ancestors who came to testify at the trial of their master in 1842. They give life and meaning to this memory which is part of them and shapes their present. And soon, reconnected to a collective identity, it is their own voice that is raised: once morest erasure and oblivion, the living today break the silence of the Negroes.
The film paints an epic vision of the work of the men of Grand-Anse to better approach their humanity, their identity.
In the name of our ancestors, slaves and traders directed by Aurélie Bambuck
Selected at the Amazon-Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – FIFAC 2022 – In competition in the documentary category
Aurélie Bambuck, daughter of two athletics champions from the West Indies, wants to know more regarding its “taboo branches”, those mentioning slave ancestors. Speaking of his roots, his parents never went back to Africa. They spoke to him regarding the Caribbean Indians, the first inhabitants of their islands, but crossing the Atlantic once more in the other direction was taboo. By asking her father regarding his first sports trip to Africa, the young woman realizes thatbeing considered a descendant of slaves was a shame. When he participated in the Friendship Games in 1963 in Dakar, Senegal, his father was not aware of being in the land of his ancestors.
Axelle Balguerie shares the taboo and shame experienced by her parents while her ancestors were not on the side of the exploited, but of the exploiters: traders, shipowners, slave traders. Today she suffers this legacy in a world that demands accountability. She is blamed for past crimes for which she is not responsible, she is thought to be a rich heiress to a fortune born from the exploitation of man by man.
Far from settling scores, the two women face their shared past together and lay the foundations for a more peaceful memory. Between Bordeaux and the West Indies, the two descendants will give soul to a tragic story. They explain to their children and younger generations how the past can remain present without compromising their future. Helped in their quest by genealogists, historians and researchers who allow them to give life to tragic statistics and paint a nuanced picture.
The cinema of Marie-Josèphe directed by Jil Servant
Selected for the Amazon Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – FIFAC 2023 – parallel screen category
The cinema of Marie-Josèphe • ©Palaviré Productions / Dynamo Production
The long and exceptional career of Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte shows us that you can devote your life to cinema, without ever making a film. She has always kept the same enthusiasm by producing cult films such as The 400 Blows, The War of the Buttons, La Boum, Diva, Tous les matins du monde. Despite a fragile physical condition, she will have faced both technical and artistic developments in cinema over 50 years, working on post-war film with glue then tape, then moving to completely virtual at the end. of the 20th century. Courageous in the face of critics who may have questioned some of her film choices, she came late in life to discover somewhat forgotten family origins in Martinique. Numerous testimonies show us that she never stopped passing on her experience to a large number of trainees and assistants, unanimous on her skills and the love she had for her job as an editor.
Origin Kongo directed by Laura Chatenay-Rivauday
Selected for the Amazon Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – FIFAC 2023 – parallel screen category
Kongo Origin, a film by Laura Chatenay Rivauday • ©YN Productions – La cuisine aux images 160 years ago, following the abolition of slavery, Africans known as “Kongos” were hired once morest their will by French recruiters on the West African coast to work the land in the Antilles. In Martinique and Guadeloupe, their descendants trace, in bits and pieces, this little-known memory. How is it expressed today when African roots are increasingly claimed in Afro-descendant societies? What do they say regarding the ambivalence of our relationship with Africa?
1+1=NOUS, a new documentary series by Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque • ©La maison Garage
The short film series 1+1=US directed by Gilles Ellie-Dit-Cosaque
Selected at the Amazon Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – FIFAC 2023 – In competition in the digital content category
The series paints a portrait of overseas societies through the men and women who constitute them. The idea is to reflect the multiplicity of origins and cultures resulting from this mixing of populations so characteristic of most overseas regions. Brewing which illustrates the history, both common and unique, of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Reunion, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
Outre-mer danse, a new documentary web series • ©909 Productions
Overseas dance directed by Sarah Almosnino
Selected at the Amazon Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – FIFAC 2023 – In competition in the digital content category
The documentary series sets out to meet a new generation of dancers. From the Antilles to the Pacific Islands, via the Indian Ocean, discover 20 talented artists with rich and varied worlds.
You have 1 new message by Véronique Kanor
Selected at the Amazon Caribbean International Documentary Film Festival – FIFAC 2023 – In competition in the digital content category
Through an assertive documentary series, the series “You have 1 new message” offers not only to hear Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyana from their literature but also to draw unexpected reliefs and to discover the heart of the World beat over each image page. Share article Close sharing window
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