“Infrared: Samy and the angels of Timone”
Filming the daily life of the Timone neuropediatrics department where her son died in 2023, Églantine Éméyé pays a poignant tribute to the children and their parents who went through the ordeal as well as to those who make this unity, upside down and against everything, a magnificent place to live. Tuesday October 15 at 10:55 p.m. on France 2.
The pediatric neurology department at Timone hospital in Marseille welcomes children suffering from often rare diseases. It is here that, in February 2023, Églantine Éméyé accompanied, until her last breath, her son Samy, 17 years old, aka the “toothbrush thief” as she nicknames him in her book-tribute with the eponymous title (published by Robert Laffont in 2015). The presenter has devoted her notoriety (her life as a woman, mother, journalist) to (re)knowledge of her son’s disability and to highlighting the life journey (obstacle course) of affected families and caregivers by autism and multiple disabilities. In 2014, with the complicity of director Olivier Pighetti, she recounted her daily life in My son, such a long fight (France 5). For Infraredboth now travel the corridors, the rooms, the operating rooms of the Timone, meeting those, patients, companions, caregivers, who, day after day, walk the place between hope and suffering, laughter and pain, and work to ensure that this place, which is so close to death, can also and above all be a living, vibrant, dense and joyful space. “ We have a role to play so that life […] be intense and dignified until the end”testifies Professor Mathieu Milh.
This film, Samy, is for you but also and above all for those who accompanied us, so that we know that, beyond the sorrow, this pediatric service is above all made of humanity and tenderness.
Églantine Éméyé – “Infrared: Samy and the angels of Timone”
Declaration of maternal love, Samy and the angels of Timone is built around the words that Églantine Éméyé addresses, beyond death, to her missing son, recounting the daily life of the neuropediatrics department to tell him the poignant emotion, but also the energy, the life force which accompanied his last days and which constitute the daily life of an entire staff certainly invested and dedicated, but never insensitive. “ In this service where we come across children who are out of breath, sometimes at the end of life, I remember the smiles, the tender looks, the outstretched hands, the concern and mutual help “, she said. This letter read in voice-over, all with modesty and delicacy, responds in mirror to the multiple scenes captured on the spot (treatments, therapy sessions, moments of relaxation in the rest room, announcement of the inevitable, etc.). Avoiding either tears or fits of laughter, the film links the fate of Samy, the personal pain of Églantine Éméyé and her family, to that of other families going through the ordeal, creating the conditions for a moving sharing, offering, against the unbearable, the solidity of a dignified and close-knit community. In doing so, Samy and the angels of Timone paints a moving portrait of all these “angels” who are as much the sick children as those around them.
Samy and the angels of Timone
“Infrared: Sammy and the Timone Angels”.
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“The pediatric neurology department at Timone hospital is a place of trial and hope, because it welcomes children suffering from often rare diseases. Their rooms become the place of all emotions. Their own, those of their parents of course, but also those of the nursing staff who accompany them. Sometimes until the end.
It is also a place of rare humanity which supported me when I was going through the most difficult time: the last days of my son Samy.
In this service where we come across children who are out of breath, sometimes at the end of life, I remember the smiles, the tender looks, the outstretched hands, the concern and the mutual help.
This film pays tribute to the nursing staff, through the memory of Samy and the experiences of the families who trusted me. »
Églantine Éméyé
Documentary (64 min – 2024) – Writing and directing Églantine Éméyé et Olivier Pighetti – Production Purple Peppers – With the participation of France Televisions – And the support of the Île-de-France region
Infrared: Samy and the angels of Timonebroadcast Tuesday October 15 at 10:55 p.m. on France 2, will be followed by a presentation presented by Marie Drucker
The documentary can be (re)watched on france.tv
Published on October 15, 2024
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