30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Italian premiere

Mamadou, Ossoul, André, Allassane, Charlotte, Hervé, Justin: they have all crossed the snowy passes that separate the Italian border with France and the Briançonnais. Now they are waiting, subject to the time-consuming bureaucratic process, to be able to resume their journey through the snow. The suspension in which they are immersed allows Marianne Chaud, who was born and lives in those places, to approach them and give testimony to their words through the faces and bodies marked by the violence they have suffered and the complexity of the passage of time in exile, a time marked by the slowness of waiting. With a camera and a microphone, working without a crew, the director has built the depth necessary for a personal relationship with her protagonists, with whom she shares the story of an adventure not yet complete.

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  Marianne Chaud

  Born in 1976 in Briançon in the Hautes-Alpes, Marianne Chaud is an ethnologist who graduated from the EHESS and dedicated her doctoral thesis to the Ladakh region of the Himalayas. For twelve years she lived between France and the remote Himalayan valleys of northern India. Her work as a filmmaker began in these very valleys in 2009, with a technique reduced to the essentials: a camera, a microphone, no crew. She returned to her place of origin, in the Briançon area, precisely during the first arrivals of migrants on foot through the snowy passes between France and Italy. L'aventure tells of her encounter with some of their stories.