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M – online screening

Yolande ZaubermanYolande Zauberman

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM – CESAR 2020

Powerful.
A vertiginous rush.
An extraordinary humanity.
Télérama ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Virtual screening followed by a conversation with the director Yolande Zauberman.

“M” as in Menahem, a child prodigy with a golden voice, abused by members of his community who worshipped him. Fifteen years later, he returned to his hometown of Bnei Brak, the world capital of the ultra-orthodox Jews, to find the culprits. But it is also the return to a world he loved so much, to a road where the word is liberated…. a reconciliation.

    • LANGUAGE : Yiddish, Hebrew
    • SUBTITLES : English, French
    • DURATION : 106min
    • GENRE : Documentary, Expat Cinema (English subtitles)
    • PARTNERSHIP : IMAJ Brussels, FIFF
    • PLACE : Online (virtual room La Vingt-Cinquième heure).
    • ACCESS : Belgium
    • PRICE : 6 euros

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M - online screening
“M” as in Menahem, a child prodigy with a golden voice, abused by members of his community who worshipped him. Fifteen years later, he returned to his hometown of Bnei Brak, the world capital of the ultra-orthodox Jews, to find the culprits. But it is also the return to a world he loved so much, to a road where the word is liberated…. a reconciliation.
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Yolande Zauberman
Yolande Zauberman

Yolande is one of the most exceptional voices of French documentary cinema. An author without filter, without inhibition, experienced in the most sensitive subjects and in the most scorching fields of investigation. Born in Paris, graduated in art history and economics, Yolande Zauberman started to work on films with director Amos Gitaï. In 1987, she made her first documentary on apartheid in South Africa, Classified People, which won the Grand Prix at the Paris Festival. Her second film, Caste Criminelle (1989), shot in India, was selected at the Cannes Film Festival. Three years later, she directed her first fiction with I Ivan, you Abraham, which won the Youth Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. A multidisciplinary artist, alternating between documentary and fiction, feature film and short film, video art and narrative art, Yolande Zauberman invented her own voice of expression through films that have always sparked lively debates and sometimes controversy. Yolande Zauberman’s films investigate the shadows, break the taboos, incite free speech and force people to listen; they attack places of power, whether religious or economic; she confronts us with realities kept in silence; she stands near the abandoned, marginalized, sacrificed and transforms them into heroes… In 2011, her film Would you have sex with an Arab?, presented at the Venice Film Festival, opened a wide debate on the living conditions of Israeli Arabs, addressing the very sensitive issue of sex and desire in this fragile region of the world. With her pirate camera, infiltrating the secret areas of TelAviv, the filmmaker wondered about taboos in Israel, without judging or provoking, simply by collecting testimonies, capturing portraits. Her new film, M, will prolong this reflection through an even more sensitive subject: rapes in the heart of Orthodox Jewish communities.

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