Synopsis
In Réunion, in the Éperon district, the municipality undertook a vast resorption plan to reduce the amount of substandard housing. The house of my childhood is in danger of being destroyed. It had been granted to my grandparents by their employer, the director of Bourbon sugar mills, an industry vestige of the colonial past of our island. This place is a testimony to a family history and to my Indian, African and European ancestry, shared with many Réunionnais. I wish to make an intimate journey, encountering strata of living or buried memory in this place.
Supports
CNC (participation)
CNC (Digital visual and sounds)
Fonds Images de la Diversité - Commissariat général à l'égalité des territoires - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée
Réunion region
PROCIREP-Société of production
ANGOA
This film was developed in 2016 in Residence for writing Doc Océan Indien in the réunion and in Tamatave (Madagascar) organised by Docmonde for the collection : Lumière d'Océan Indien by the association Lumière du monde.
Awards
- The diversity award at the Festival "Traces de Vies"
Festivals
35èmes rencontres du cinéma de Gindou, août 2019
Les États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas
FIFIG, Festival International du Film Insulaire de Groix
Sélection au Festival Traces de Vies, en Compétition, Clermont-Ferrand, décembre
2019