212 min
Germany, France, 2024
Production : CASKFILMS, VOLTE Film
French, English, Arab
French, English
Meilleur film (section Encounters) et Mention spéciale pour le meilleur documentaire · Berlinale 2024
Synopsis
In January 2018, the construction of an airport in rural Notre-Dame-des-Landes was officially canceled, putting an end to years of resistance led by one of the most important activist communities in France. From 2022 to 2023, filmmakers Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell immersed themselves in the ZAD (zone-to-defend) to create a portrait of collective life in the years after this unprecedented success. The resulting work documents the transformation of a local struggle into a new ecological protest movement – culminating with the Battle of Sainte-Soline in March 2023, where an act of collective direct action against water privatization was again met by the brutality of State violence.
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