OBSCURE NIGHT - WILD LEAVES
(The burning ones, the obstinate)
A feature-length documentary film Sylvain George, 2022, 265', DCP, black and white
Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, is a land border between the African continent and Europe. A buffer zone where European migration policies, their challenges and their consequences are read and shown. A place towards which converge the migrants of the Maghreb. They are "those who burn". They have nothing else to lose except wanting to live to the end.
PREMIERE MONDIALE AU FESTIVAL DE LOCARNO - Fuori Concurso
Festival DocBuenos Aires
VIENNALE
Mostra Sao Paolo
Kino Otok/Slovene Cinematheque/Festival of Migrant Film (Slovenie)
Unione Culturale Franco Antonicelli (UC) (Italy)
Picture: Rémy Artiges
Sylvain George is a French filmmaker, born in 1968 in Lyon.
Après des études de philosophie, il réalise des films-essais poétiques, politiques et expérimentaux, sur la thématique de l’immigration notamment.
His films L’impossible (2009), Qu’ils reposent en révolte (2010), Les Éclats (2011), Vers Madrid (2013) et Paris est une fête (2017), sont projetés dans les réseaux militants, ainsi que dans des festivals internationaux tels que Cinéma du réel, Milan, CPH:DOX, Torino Film Festival, BAFICI, DocLisboa, Valdivia, Cinémathèque de Copenhague, Viennale Centre Pompidou, Forum des Images, Festival de Lussas, FID Marseille, etc. et font l'objet de plusieurs rétrospectives (Cinémathèque Française 2008, FilmmakerFilmFestival 2008, Festival des Cinéma différents 2008, Périphérie/Jacques Rancière 2009, Doc's Kingdom 2009, Subversive Film Festival 2010...)
Production: Noir Productions (France)
In co-production with Alina film (Switzerland) and
the Radio Télévision Suisse RTS, Bettina Hofmann
and Steven Artels.
Direction, script, image, editing: Sylvain George
Producers: Marie-Noelle George,
Coproducers: Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney,
Sound Edit and mix: Carlos Ibañez Diaz
Colograding: Rodney Musso
Finishing: Jean-Baptiste Perrin
With the support of Eurimage, Cinémas du Monde, support for the writing and development of the CNC, Office Fédéral de la Culture, Cinéforom, Loterie Romande and Abbé Pierre Foundation.