Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between the performing arts and cinema, created in collaboration with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily gathering of film screenings, at the end of which the public meets and exchanges with theater artists, choreographers, filmmakers, activists, critics and journalists invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships these guests maintain between disciplines and with the world. It's a place where we can take a closer look, both large and small, at the themes brought to the stage, the territories of the guest language, and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.
Didy
By Gaël Kamilindi and François-Xavier Destors // Switzerland, France, Rwanda // 2024 // 1h25
Screening followed by a discussion with Gaël Kamilindi, director and actor with the Comédie-Française, and the Utopia cinema team.
"Didy is everywhere", says Gaël Kamilindi as he opens his film. Yet the void is immense. To fill it, he sets off for Rwanda, accompanied by François-Xavier Destors, to follow in the footsteps of his mother Didy, who died when he was five. He combines shocking archive footage with the memories of survivors to paint a portrait of this woman and begin to mourn her loss.