Affaires Familiales

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Émilie Rousset

France / Creation Festival d’Avignon 2025 / As part of the 52es Rencontre(s) d’été

Sensitive content (sexual and gender-based violence)

From meetings with female lawyers and litigants across Europe, Affaires Familiales presents intimate stories that intersect with the law, and examines justice as a space for the transformation of speech. 

Affaires Familiales, Emilie-Rousset © Martin-Argyroglo

Presentation

Using documentary archives as raw material for her theatre, Émilie Rousset examines the judicial system as a space for the transformation of speech. Based on encounters with female lawyers and litigants across Europe, Affaires Familiales revisits intimate stories that intersect with the law. Reenacted by six European actors, the voices and bodies of these stories are bought to the stage – with every case prompting questions of our entire society. A lawyer who specialises in child abduction, an expert in LGBT family law, an Italian father of a child born through surrogacy, a police officer from the Mossos d’Esquadra, silenced testimonies of incest, victories before the European Court of Human Rights... These cases reveal a justice system challenged by the tensions and transformations of our societies.

من خلال لقاء مع محامين ومتقاضين في جميع أنحاء أوروبا، يعرض Affaires Familiales قصصاً حميمية تتقاطع مع القانون، ويستكشف العدالة كمساحة لتحويل الخطاب. 

Distribution

With Saadia Bentaïeb, Antonia Buresi, Teresa Coutinho, Ruggero Franceschini, Emmanuelle Lafon, Núria Lloansi, Manuel Vallade

The text was written based on interviews with Fabíola Cardoso, Davide Chiappa, Montse Gaston, Anne Lassalle, Lilia Mhissen, Caroline Mécary, Morghân Peltier, Pauline Rongier, Jennifer Tervil, Hansu Yalaz, Marco Zaba, (en cours). Ont également participé à la phase d’entretiens et de recherche, notamment Alice Bouissou, Véronique Chauveau, Michele Giarratano, Diodio Metro, Joana Mortaga, Luca Paladini, Agathe Wehbé, ainsi que l’équipe du Parloir Père-Enfants ARS95 et les associations Adepape95-Repairs!95 et  Protéger l’enfant.

Conceived, directed and written by Émilie Rousset
Scenography creation Nadia Lauro 
Music Carla Pallone 
Writing collaboration Sarah Maeght 
Lighting Manon Lauriol 
Cinematographers Joséphine Drouin Viallard et Alexandra de Saint Blanquat 
Additional cinematography in Italy Tommy / Additional cinematography in Spain Maud Sophie 
Editing Carole Borne, avec le renfort de Gabrielle Stemmer 
Sound Romain Vuillet 
General and stage management Jérémie Sananes 
Lighting design Manon Lauriol

Production

Production Centre dramatique national Orléans Centre-Val de Loire, initiée par la Compagnie John Corporation (conventionnée par la Drac Île-de-France et par la Région Île-de-France) 
Co-production Points communs Nouvelle Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise, Le Festival d'Avignon, Le Volcan Scène nationale du Havre, Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand Scène nationale, Agora-Desnos Scène nationale de l’Essonne, Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris), Festival d’Avignon, La Chartreuse-CNES de Villeneuve lez Avignon dans le cadre des Rencontre(s) d’été 
With the support Compagnie John Corporation (conventionnée par la Drac Île-de-France et par la Région Île-de-France) 
With the assistance Les Indépendances (Colin Pitrat and Hélène Moulin-Rouxel) 

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Affaires Familiales, Emilie-Rousset © Martin-Argyroglo

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