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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Claire Denis returns to the Festival’s Official Selection with Le Cri des Gardes / The Fence, a stark and haunting adaptation of her late friend Bernard-Marie Koltès’ 1979 play. The film starts with a quiet but poignant plea: somewhere in Africa, a man appears before the manager of a Westernfunded construction site to demand the body of his brother, who died earlier that day on the site. Behind bureaucratic refusals lies a brutal truth: a despicable racist crime covered up as an accident.
At the press conference, Denis reflected on her long connection to Koltès and actor Isaach de Bankolé, saying the desire to make this film spans over three decades. She also denied the allegorical nature of Alboury’s character, stating that it would be a mistake to give him a symbolic nature, emptying him of humanity. His physical presence, closeness and distance are the reason of the film.
Shot in chronological order with a minimalist, theatre-inspired mise-en-scène, the film explores the persistence of colonial violence, not as a metaphor, but as lived reality. With raw performances and sparse visuals, the film confronts the audience with a violence that, as Denis reminds us, is far from over, since the truth is that construction sites like the one in the film still exist.
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