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National Premiere, Glory of Documentary: Aftershocks, 2024

Direct Action

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Director Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell

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A space physically occupied by French activist group the ZAD, who oppose environmental destruction. The film captures fragments of the self-suffcient life in this community through lingering, extended shots: cutting timber, tilling the soil, baking bread, a child' s birthday celebrated in a garden, adults engaged in a game of chess. What may appear bucolic is, in fact, a form of direct resistance. The same hands that cultivate the land and knead the dough are those that clash with riot police in protests against water privatization, and those countless helping hands that pull their comrades out from trenches.

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Sun, 10/25

13:00End time to be confirmed

Screen 5, Changjiang Cinema, Starry Community (Hanghuicheng)

1025-CJ5-1300Subtitles unknown

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Director: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell
Country/Region: France, Germany, Korea
Year: 2024
Length: 216min
Section: Glory of Documentary: Aftershocks
Edition: West Lake International Documentary Festival 2026, No. 8
Original language: French
Premiere: National Premiere
Selection: Official selection
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