La loi de Dieu, la loi des Hommes

Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in conjunction with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily programme of film screenings after which the public can meet and talk with directors, choreographers, filmmakers, researchers and critics invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships that these speakers maintain between disciplines and the world. It's a space where we can take a closer look, from the small to the large, at the themes that are brought to life on stage, on screen and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

La loi de Dieu, la loi des Hommes

By Thierry Derouet // France // 2023 // 26 minutes

A lawyer and defender of the poor, Dominican Henri Burin Des Roziers arrived in Brazil 30 years ago. Since the early 1990s, he has lived in the Amazon, in the state of Parà. He defends land rights activists, farm workers and the landless in a state where violence and impunity reign. At the age of 78, he has received death threats because of his activities as a Human rights defender.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Sabine Rousseau, biographer of Henri Burin des Roziers, Régis Waquet, lawyer and former collaborator of Henri Burin des Roziers, Kananda Rocha Xavier (leader of the MST activists' choir) and Maria Raimunda Cesar (MST Pará leader)
and moderated by David Milliat, journalist and presenter of Jour du Seigneur.
With Foi et Culture