Regards comparés : environnements, changer d'air(e) - Cohabiting

Since 2012, Inalco has been a partner of the Jean Rouch Festival, screening films from the Regards comparés selection in the auditorium. This year, screenings will be held from November 24 to 27, 2025 on the theme of the environment. All screenings will be followed by a debate with filmmakers and experts.
Un paysage au bord d'un lac où un ours se promène et en fond des montagnes enneigées.
Mongolie, la vallée des ours © Hamid Sardar ‎

2:30 - 4 pm

  • Jikoo, la chose espérée, France | 2014 | 52 min | vostf
    A film by Christophe Leroy and Adrien Camus (France)

The inhabitants of Bakadadji, a village located in a national park in Senegal, are seeking financing for fencing to protect their crops from the protected animals that ruin them. These farmers are demanding recognition for a rural way of life to which they are deeply attached. This immersion in the daily life of the village evokes a meeting that will never take place, and, in a hollow way, the way our era looks at a peasant world that struggles to make its voice heard.

Discussion with director Christophe Leroy, in duplex, moderated by Alice Chaudemanche, lecturer in Wolof language and literature at Inalco.

4:15 - 6:30 pm

  • Mongolia, the valley of the bears, France | 2023 | 90 min | vostf
    A film by Hamid Sardar (Iran)

Director of the Red Taiga protected area in Mongolia, Tumursukh has made it his mission to ensure the preservation of natural areas and wild animals alike, by converting former hunters into Forest Guardians. A slow evolution of mentalities suddenly compromised by the intrusion of a bear family in a village...

Discussion with director Hamid Sardar, in duplex (to be confirmed), and in the presence of Rémy Marion, author of L'ours l'autre de l'homme, published by Actes sud, and co-director of Fort comme un ours for ARTE, hosted by Charlotte Marchina, lecturer in anthropology at Inalco.

Coffee and tea break

7pm - 9pm

  • Góom bu ñuul | Tumeur noire, Senegal | 2023 | 20 min | vostf
    A film by Babacar Sougou (Senegal)

Babacar Sougou, a 23-year-old man, recounts his childhood in an open-air rubbish dump close to his home. Mbeubeuss is an ecological and health bomb for the surrounding populations.

Discussion with director Babacar Sougou, in duplex, and in the presence of Claire Dutrait, author, investigator and researcher in ecopoetics, moderated by Alice Chaudemanche, lecturer in Wolof language and literature at Inalco.

  • Leiputrija | Pays de cocagne, Latvia | 2004 | 30 min | vo
    A film by Laila Pakalniņa (Latvia)

There are places we don't want to know anything about: landfills are one of them. From a human point of view, it's an awful place, a stinking desert of garbage. But this desert teems with life: a staggering profusion of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, all intertwined in an existential life-death relationship, giving the landfill strangely seductive dreamlike allure.

Discussion in the presence of Claire Dutrait, author, investigator and researcher in ecopoetics, moderated by Laurent Coumel, lecturer in contemporary history at Inalco.