The month of Doc, there are 76 screenings meetings around documentary films, in 40 municipalities of Ille-et-Vilaine, each time with meetings and debates around the films.
Three questions to…
Agnès Frémontfrom Comptoir du doc, programmer of Mois du doc
What is the spirit of Doc Month?
We opened this weekend, in Rennes, with four films around the theme of voice. Making a film is an activist act, it gives a voice to those who need it. Until the end of the month, we will show rare films, often for free, in cinemas, but also media libraries, film clubs, MJC, in forty municipalities in the department. Each screening is accompanied by a meeting.
How did you choose these films?
Comptoir du doc chose thirteen. We defend a way of making cinema. These are films spotted at festivals in France and Europe, only documentaries, it is then a collective choice. Documentary remains a difficult art to produce and broadcast. Films do not have much exposure in the media, are not released in cinemas, except in big cities. And sometimes it's just for one or two sessions.
What are the themes of the selection?
Save who can by Alexe Poukine, is a film about the medical world and education in empathy, among caregivers and which also talks about the state of hospitals, Photophobiaa Slovak documentary, films children taken into the metro entrances in Kharkiv to protect themselves from bombs, it talks about the daily life of Ukrainians during the war, A country of paper by Marion Boé, is the portrait of the Rennes lawyer Mélanie Le Verger who defends unaccompanied minors, Allo la Francea road trip by Floriane Devigne who sets out in search of telephone booths, is a poetic film which also talks about the disappearance of public services. A pastor by Louis Hanquet is a multi-award winning, contemplative first film, a portrait of a pastor from the southern Alps, confronted with climate change and the presence of the wolf who threatens his sheep. A country of resistance is an activist film, a portrait of a mayor of Calabria who made welcoming migrants the future of the village. He is now being prosecuted.
Until November 30, 2024the entire program on Comptdudoc.org
