Special Screenings 2023 / Facing Darkness / France, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2023
A searing account of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, which lasted from April 1992 to February 1996. Renowned French documentary filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot takes two different approaches to his film. First, he works exclusively with archival footage, letting us see the street fighting through the lenses of young filmmakers who defended the city with weapon and camera in hand. In the second part, the same people look back on the past a quarter century later. A sketch of the traumatic experiences of the civil war is thus transformed into a portrait of a wounded creative spirit. Facing Darkness is film as document and film as therapy; it asks whether, face to face with cruelty, we can escape the darkness.
Martin Horyna
109 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Jean-Gabriel Périot
/ Screenplay Jean-Gabriel Périot
/ Dir. of Photography Amine Berrada, Amel Dikoli, Denis Gravouil, Augustin Losserand
/ Sound Xavier Thibault, Laure Arto
/ Editor Jean-Gabriel Périot
/ Producer Cécile Lestrade
/ Production Alter Ego Production
/ Coproduction Alina Film, Pravo Ljudski
/ Sales The Party Film Sales
Jean-Gabriel Périot (1974, Tours, France). Selected filmography: Even If She Had Been a Criminal (Eût-elle été criminelle..., 2005, short doc.), A German Youth (Une Jeunesse Allemande, 2015, doc.), Returning to Reims (Retour à Reims, 2021, doc.), Facing Darkness (2023, doc.).
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