From Korea to Mali via the meanders of social networks and the Paris Opera, here are the documentaries that you can find in theaters this week from September 6, 2017. A week during which two big names in documentary cinema, Claude Lanzmann and Souleymane Cissé, met up!
Napalm – Claude Lanzmann (1h40min) – 2017
The director of Shoah, a monumental 9:30 documentary that tells the story of the extermination of European Jews in Nazi camps, returns to the screens at the age of 91 to tell his first visit to North Korea in 1958. Just as he falls ill, Lanzmann falls in love with Kim Kun-sun, a North Korean nurse. She doesn't speak French, he doesn't understand Korean, "Napalm" will be the only word they can share.
O KA – Souleymane Cissé (1h36 min) – 2015
The first African filmmaker to win an award at Cannes (Special Jury Prize) in 1987 for his film Yeelen (The Light), Souleymane Cissé directed with O KA a very personal documentary by inviting the viewer into his own home. Addressing his family's fight against expropriation, he denounces the injustices and corruption that ravage Mali, his native land.
Nothing To Hide – Marc Meillassoux and Mihaela Gladovic (1h26min) – 2016
Nothing To Hide – Marc Meillassoux and Mihaela Gladovic (1h26min) – 2016The documentary Nothing to Hide is dedicated to the study of the surveillance of personal data and questions the popular argument of "I have nothing to hide ". Over a period of one month, a young artist serves as a guinea pig and sees his digital data analyzed in great detail. Fueled by testimonies of whistleblowers, hackers, judges, sociologists, the documentary explores the danger of this "nothing to hide" attitude that is also put into perspective with an era of fight against terrorism.
Note that the documentary should be put online under a free license (Creative Commons).
In the footsteps of Trisha Brown – Glacial Decoy at the Opera – Marie-Hélène Rebois (1h19min) – 2016
In the footsteps of Trisha Brown – Glacial Decoy at the Opera – Marie-Hélène Rebois (1h19min) – 2016For lovers of contemporary dance, after In the footsteps of Pina Bausch, here is In the footsteps of Trisha Brown. Marie-Hélène Rebois, who signs her first documentary for the cinema, slipped behind the scenes of the Opera Garnier, in Paris, during the recreation of Glacial Decoy (1979). The initiation of the dancers to this sequence allows them to rediscover the mastery of imbalance that is at the heart of Trisha Brown's work.
With a program with varied themes and names that are guarantees of quality, the documentary is back with great fanfare!
