Praise of the documentary and the room. After a second online edition in 2021, for the reasons we know, Best of Doc #3 returns to the big screen: this festival, which features ten documentaries released in 2021, takes place from March 2 until March 8. in around sixty partner establishments (from Ajaccio to Troyes, via Perpignan, Limoges, Rennes, Mantes-la-Jolie, Paris, Saint-Quentin, Villeurbanne, etc.).
Let us remember those film warriors and their prey transformed into fireflies through the eye of a thermal camera, in There will be no more night, by Eléonore Weber, released on June 16, 2021. The director and performer took videos (available on YouTube) made by army pilots in conflict zones, aboard helicopters equipped with cameras. The captain views the images behind his glasses connected to a thermal camera, which is connected to the machine gun. That the fact of filming is so linked to a warlike project makes one dizzy; that no body escapes surveillance even in the most remote corners evokes another story, that of cinema: the act of framing, is it not choosing to illuminate or to leave in the shadows? ?
In “Le Kiosque”, director Alexandra Pianelli proves that you can tell the country from a piece of sidewalk
The Algerian filmmaker Hassen Ferhani, author of the noticed In my head a roundabout (2015), takes us to 143 Desert Street (released June 16, 2021). This is the address of Malika, 74, owner of a refreshment bar in the middle of the Sahara where time stands still and customers stop for a meal, on their route of the national 1 linking Algiers to Tamanrasset . Passengers who meet and end up talking to each other…
In another kind of attempt to exhaust a place, here is Booth (released October 6, 2021), seen through the eyes of Alexandra Pianelli, where newspaper and magazine buyers pass through, so much paper destined to disappear one day. A graduate of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, and also the daughter and granddaughter of newsagents, the director set up her camera for ten years in front of this Parisian haven, located on Place Victor-Hugo (16and district), proving that one can tell the country from a piece of sidewalk.
Two rare films
With On the way to the billion, by Dieudo Hamadi (released on September 29, 2021), the screens will also have trembled in front of the mobilization of the victims of an unknown conflict called the “six-day war”: this happened between June 5 and 10, 2000, when the Ugandan and Rwandan armies fought on neighboring ground, that of the Democratic Republic of Congo then in the midst of civil war. All the programming is available on Bestofdoc.fr, with director interviews to discover.
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