The End of Kings

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The End of Kings

La fin des rois
Rémi Brachet
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
France
2020
39 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

The riots that were to spread across the whole of France in 2005 began in Clichy-sous-Bois outside the gates of Paris: young men on the barricades, burning suburbs. The division of society became painfully tangible. What has happened since then? This complex, finely woven documentary look at the Banlieue shows how consciously young people today deal with discrimination. The age of machismo seems over – at the school theatre workshop or while playing soccer. Women rule the world …

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Rémi Brachet
Cinematographer
Zoe Bota, Anna Sauvage, Evgenia Alexandrova, Eva Sehet
Editor
Héloïse Pelloquet
Producer
Joséphine Mourlaque, Antoine Salomé
Co-Producer
Ateliers Médicis
Sound
Nina Maïni, Tristan Lhomme, Clément Claude, Flavia Cordey, Gaël Éléon, Hadrien Bayard