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Homme de sable (L') [Le Cinéma de Thierry Michel]

  • Homme de sable (L') [Le Cinéma de Thierry Michel]
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2014
Format : Feature

Portrait of the famous Belgian documentary filmmaker Thierry Michel and a look back at the long career and geopolitical work of this committed filmmaker who travelled the world for 40 years, between Belgium, Brazil, Iran and the Congo. A multiple itinerary through which he tried to understand the complexity of men with the greatest veracity. His cinema has never ceased to explore territories foreign to his roots in order to invite us to question the meaning of reality, historical memory and to give us a glance at the meaning of our existence, notably by exercising social struggles and the excesses of power on the African continent...

This portrait looks back over a 40-year career and revisits the mythical locations of Thierry Michel's various film shoots, from his beginnings in the black Walloon country to the Democratic Republic of Congo, via Brazil and Morocco.




A film by José Luis Penafuerte selected for the Fespaco 2015, Rubrique Vue par...

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