Selection : French Feature films 2018
Taking place
A Lua Platz
Jérémy Gravayat
CAMIRA Award Best Feature Film / Special Mention Eurocks One+One award
At the outskirts of Paris, in a rapidly-changing suburb, a group of Romanian families are searching for a place to live. From their abandoned village, to the demolished slum and occupied houses, their quest weaves together a common history, forged through solidarity and marked by displacement. Accompanying them on their journey, we build this film as an alternative habitable space.
Take Place is a considerable documentary both for the mixed material used (archive footage and live film-footage shot in France and Romania) and for the novel character of the testimonies presented throughout the film, from Romanian families living in Seine-St-Denis. They tell us about the hardships they face in the relationship with the French state, in finding a job or a place to live. A melancholy arises with the Romanian villages they have had to leave, presented through lyric and nostalgic images, and their struggle and resistance for political autonomy becomes almost sublime. Through this narrative of Romanian and Romani people's oppression by the state and the police, the film questions the persistance of France's racist structure. (Charlotte Corchète)
- Photography
- Guillaume Mazloum, Jérémy Gravayat
- Sound
- Gil Savoy
- Editing
- Marie Beaune
- Production
- Carine Chichkowsky, Survivance et Damien Monnier, L’image d’après
Eurocks One+One award
CONTACT:
Survivance, Carine Chichkowsky
carine@survivance.net
L'image d'après, Damien Monnier
damien.lidap@gmail.com
Through his documentary films, Jérémy Gravayat explores the lives of people living in exile. He is also a film editor and collaborates to L'Abominable a cinematographic lab and to the magazine Dérives.tv. LM/FF : Les Hommes debout (2010). CM/SF : La Rencontre (2001), Un autre jour sur la plage (2002), L’Europe après la pluie (2006), Vivre Ici (2008), Que sais-je ?(2012), Planches, clous, marteaux (2014).
