The Words Women Spoke One Day
2024•1h 24m•9.0•Released
DocumentaryHistory
1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes prison. For one night, filmmaker Yann Le Masson films them. They tell him their vision for the future of Algeria and the place women must occupy in the new society to be built. Fifty years later, with the soundtrack missing, Raphaël Pillosio sets out to find these women. Two deaf people set about lip-reading the women filmed by Yann Le Masson, revealing snatches of sentences, words cut short by the camera's shifts. An investigative film in which the few activists still alive discover their old testimonies and tell us their silent story. The reconstruction of the lost soundtrack will remain in suspense; no happy ending will come to absorb the absence, to cancel the ferocious operation of time. An essay film about cinema that depicts their disappearance, and forever keeps them alive.
Director
Raphaël Pillosio
Writer
Raphaël Pillosio
Languages
French
Studio
l’atelier documentaire
Cast
Cathy Aubry-Le Masson
Self
Yann Le Masson
Self
Salima Sahraoui-Bouaziz
Self
Malika Ouzegane
Self
Zohra Drif-Bitat
Self
Fatouma Kiouane
Self
Fetoma Ouzegane
Self
Malika Koriche
Self
Ali Bennatig
Self
Noémi Gourhand-Néret
Self
Raphaël Pillosio
Self
Production
Company
l’atelier documentaire
Producer
Raphaël Pillosio
Producer
Fabrice Marache
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