A busy schedule for Documentary Month

A promotion of documentary films, the distribution of which is too often confidential. This, among other things, is the bias of the national documentary film festival which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It is in this context that the Millau cinema, the Médiathèque du Sud-Aveyron and the Aveyron cinema association have joined forces to offer programming in the city of the glove.

“Our three structures worked with their networks to achieve this program which includes eight films”, explained Céline Guelton-Thomasset, coordinator at Aveyron cinema. The association will offer two films, made by directors from the region. MéSA has focused its programming on the theme of food. The cinema will screen documentaries addressing more historical and sociological themes, in partnership with various structures.

A busy schedule

Kick-off on Monday November 4 at the cinema at 8 p.m. with Dear basin, by Mathieu Kiefer. The director, born in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, offers “a look at the territory of the Decazeville basin in poetry” through the words of residents. “It’s a bit like an introspective session”, underlines Céline Guelton-Thomasset.

The Tuesday November 5at 6 p.m., the public is expected at the media library for the screening of Super size me, by Morgan Spurlock (from 10 years old). “It’s a documentary from the period where the director is the hero of the documentary, underlines the head of the image, sound and digital sector of MéSA Cédric Rajadel. I think it’s a film that can resonate well here.”

The Friday November 15 at 8:30 p.m. at the cinema, the film by Jérôme Prudent Tomorrow, the valley will be projected. He returns to the scientific experiment carried out as part of the European “Just scapes” program in the Arac valley, in Ariège. A debate will then be organized by Social Food Security.

Meetings around films

The Monday November 18it is a session offered by the Millau cinema at 8:30 p.m., in partnership with the Department of Aveyron, the Lion’s club of Sud-Aveyron and the Journal de Millau, will see the screening of Mein Kampf, it was written. Director Antoine Vitkine and producer Daniel Leconte will be present. The Syllabes bookstore will offer a book sales stand.

Short films around the sensitive relationship that speleologists have with the underground environment will be screened on Thursday November 21 at 8:30 p.m. at the Millau cinema. An evening offered as part of the “Rendez-vous des Autochtones” in the presence of Katia Fersing, director of Mumig and Jean-Louis Rocher, speleologist.

Friday November 22at 8 p.m. at the Millau cinema, time for the favorite of the Regional Coordination of Doc Month in Occitanie. Knit’s Island, l’île sans fin by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h. A film set in the environment of DayZ, an online post-apocalyptic survival simulation game. “The scenario is very original, it’s a very strong film and we realize that we meet the whole world in this documentary”, adds Cédric Rajadel.

Highlight the documentary style

Still at the cinema, the Sunday November 24 at 6 p.m., Hospital by Frédérick Wiseman retraces the daily life of the emergency department of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York in 1970. A session offered in partnership with the MJC film club. Tuesday November 26 at 8:30 p.m., Smoke sauna sisterhood will be screened at the Millau cinema. A documentary by Anne Hints which delves into the sacred saunas of Estonia where the feminine condition appears in all its truth and strength. “A documentary about sorority, which shows a path of reconstruction for the victims, a realistic and gentle look”underlines Manon Espitalier, volunteer at Family Planning. The structure will also ensure a debate after the screening.

Finally, Saturday November 30 at MéSA, Our daily bread by Nikolaus Geyrahalter at 4 p.m. “A documentary which evokes animal and agricultural overexploitation, a little hard to watch – not recommended for under 14s – but which denounces overconsumption”explains Cédric Rajadel about the last meeting of the festival.

Information on the site moisdudoc.com and program in Millau on millau.fr/pages-dinformation/agenda.