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History & Current Affairs, Society & Human Interest, New Programmes

Keywords:
Social/humanitarian, Europe, migrants


Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR MIRAMONTE FILMS

Coproducer(s)/co-financing:
RDI/SRC, PUBLIC SENAT

Length:  1x75
1x55

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: English

Nationality: France

Year: 2019

Rights: 52' TV version: world excl. Italy

Support(s):  HD file

Program available
by ADAV

LAW AND THE VALLEY (The)

Director(s): Nuno ESCUDEIRO – Writer(s): Moritz BONATTI, Nuno ESCUDEIRO   Contact Contact   Download Print page

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The French-Italian border, running through the Roya and Durance valleys down to the Mediterranean, has been closed by the French authorities. Refugees were thus forced to take perilous mountain routes to cross into France. The valley people offered them a helping hand, but their human gesture made them the guilty party in the eyes of the law…

This compelling film goes to the front line of the refugee crisis as a handful of citizens do their part to help, thus questioning the role of each of us in troubled times where simplistic arguments blur our understanding of democracy.

THE PRESS:
Read the full article and interview with the filmmaker published in Variety:
Extract: "When you close the border, you communicate fear....And what we allowed to happen was that politicians, they dealt with it through fear..."
(Nuno Escudeiro in Variety, 3 May 2019)

"The doc focuses not on the horrors people escaped or the perils of their travels—those narratives have been covered elsewhere—but on the individual actions that seek to remedy the solution.... "Escudeiro captures some incredible footage...'
(Pat Mullen, POV Magazine 27/04/19)

"A profound and subtle film that questions the role of each of us in troubled times where simplistic arguments blur our understanding of democracy." (Christine Chaumeau - Télérama, mai 2019)
Two versions:
position 1: 55' version
position 2: 75' versions

Festivals and Awards:
* 2019: Official selection Avigon Festival d'Avignon (June), France
* 2019: Official Italian competition "Visione da Mondo" (September) - Milan, Italy: special Jury Mention & Winner BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas Award
* 2019: Official selection Lunenburg Film Festival, Canada (Sept.).
* 2019: Checkpoints Competition, Bergen Film Festival (September), Norway
* 2019: Official selection BFI London Film Festival(October), UK
* 2019: Official selection UNAFF (October), San Francisco, USA
* 2019: "Emerging international filmmaker" Award for Nuno Escudeiro at HOT DOCS "International Spectrum" (03 May 2019, Toronto)

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