Territoires cinématographiques is a dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in collaboration with Utopia cinemas in Avignon. It’s a daily programme of film screenings, after which the public meet and talk with theatre artists, choreographers, filmmakers, activists, critics and journalists invited to the Festival d’Avignon. This space explores the intimate relationships that these guests maintain between disciplines and with the world. It’s a place to take a broader look at the themes brought to the stage, the territories of the guest language and by the Café des idées.
Rwanda: The Silence of Words
Gaël Faye et Michael Sztanke // France, Rwanda // documentary // 2022 // original version with French subtitles
Their voices had never been heard. Co-directed by French-Rwandan author and musician Gaël Faye and director Michael Sztanke, this is the first film to discreetly record the testimonies of Prisca, Marie-Jeanne and Concessa. It focuses at what these women endured during the genocide and their lives afterwards.
Screening followed by a discussion with Gaël Faye.