Comparative views: environments, changing air - Mobilizing / protesting
2-3:30 pm
- Mère Garab, Senegal | 2023 | 12 min | vostf
A film by El hadji Demba Dia and Mamadou Khouma Gueye (Senegal)
Discussion with mère Garab around access and exploitation of agricultural land for and by women. Their plight, cultivating and producing in precarious conditions.
- Xaar Yallà, Senegal | 2021 | 23 min | vostf
A film by Mamadou Khouma Gueye
She advances towards us. It moves against us. She advances with us... She drives me away. I can no longer advance with her. I will no longer see her beautiful horizon. I don't want to miss her fresh morning air. She has given me everything. She is the sea. She advances on the city of Saint- Louis, the "Venice of the south", some of whose districts, Guet Ndar and Ndar Toute, hemmed in between the sea and the river, are in danger of disappearing, as is Ndoud Baba Diéye, a nearby island....
- Le Temps de dire non, Sénégal | 2021 | 13 min | vostf
A film by El hadji Demba Dia (Sénégal)
Bargny, a commune of 70,000 inhabitants in the heart of the Dakar suburbs, polluted by industrial infrastructures, its population asphyxiated and its inhabitants threatened by the installation of a coal-fired power plant. Father Ibe, a retired policeman and father on the verge of exhaustion, engages in a last stand to save his endangered environment.
Discussion with director El hadji Demba Dia, in duplex, and with the presence of Oumar Ba, filmmaker, moderated by Alice Chaudemanche, lecturer in Wolof language and literature at Inalco.
3:30-5:45 pm
- Dekiru : C'est possible, France | 2020 | 99 min | vostf
A film by : Mathilde and Jonathan Carène (France)
Since the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Japan has seen the emergence of numerous ecological initiatives. Exploring local and community solutions such as permaculture, renewable energies, alternative schools, Transition Town movements, local currencies, sustainable development and politics.
Discussion in the presence of director Mathilde Julien and filmmaker Jonathan Carène, moderated by Noémi Godefroy, senior lecturer at Inalco, historian of modern Japan (XVIIIe-XXe century).
Coffee and tea break
6-7:30pm
- Грассрутс | Grassroots, Russia | 2018 | 58 min | vosta
A film by Konstantin Davydkin (Russia)
The word "grassroots" means "popular roots" and is often used as an international term for grassroots civic engagement. The film was shot throughout 2017, proclaimed the Year of Ecology in Russia, but environmental violations have only increased. Three struggles - the defense of Sunsky Bor in Karelia, the activities of the Ekovakhta ngo in the Krasnodar Krai and the protection of the Khoper River in the Voronezh Oblast - illustrate the commitment of environmental activists, but subsequently some were forced to emigrate and others received real sentences. What is the cost of environmentalists' defense of a forest, a park, a city?
Discussion in the presence of producer Maria Muskevich and geographer Camille Robert-Boeuf CNRS researcher at the Migrinter laboratory (Poitiers), moderated by Laurent Coumel, lecturer in contemporary history at Inalco.
7:30pm-9:30pm
- Standing above the clouds, USA, Hawai'i | 2024 | 83 min | vostf
A film by Jalena Keane-Lee (USA)
When the construction of the gigantic Thirty Meter Telescope is proposed on Mauna Kea, an uprising of kiaʻi (protectors) in Hawaii and around the world dedicate their lives to protecting the sacred mountain from destruction. Through the eyes of mothers and daughters from three indigenous Hawaiian families, Standing Above the Clouds explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of preserving cultural traditions.
Discussion in the presence of Pascal Marichalar, CNRS research fellow, Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (IRIS), moderated by Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard, senior lecturer in contemporary history at Inalco.