On a cinema screen are projected images of demonstrations and of their repression by the police—raw images, to which different people react. Images often shot by the victims themselves, or by their friends and other activists, which demolish the official story, the myth according to some, that the use of force by the police is entirely proportionate and a response to aggressions of which police officers themselves would be the first victims. But beyond raw emotions, the power of Dufresne’s film resides in the way it asks, with the help of historians, sociologists, law scholars, and police officers, the fundamental questions of the legitimacy of the use of violence by the police.
Distribution
Screening followed by a meeting with David Dufresne and Anne-Sophie Simpere, Freedom Advocate for Amnesty International France
Production
With the cinemas Utopia