Les statues meurent aussi

Carte blanche for the Cinématographe and Territoires sensibles, a traveling program of short films expressing resistance and solidarity on the bangs of the Festival de la Cité. A bar welcomes you 30 minutes before the start of each screening. Open-air screenings with invited guests. In case of bad weather, screenings at the Cinématographe: lecinematographe.ch

Statues Also Die (67’)

Long hidden, always violent, often absurd and sometimes ridiculous: the colonial past brought back to our memories. In the footsteps of the King of the Belgians in Congo and... Guillaume Tell in Brazil! The screening will be followed by a discussion with Rob Jacobs, member of the Faire-Part collective, and Léa Katharina Meier, director of Miasma Ficção.

Speech for a Melting Statue, Collectif Faire-Part, Belgique/RDC, 2023, 10’
In June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square. For now the sculpture is still standing, but an optimistic poet already prepares her speech for the day it will be removed.

Les porteurs, Sarah Vanagt, Belgium, 2022, 31’
"I'm going on a trip, and I'm taking with me... an elephant's rib to stir the food while it's cooking, a feather duster to catch winged termites, eight butterflies, a rope made of fragrant roots... and 150 metres of exposed but undeveloped film destined for the Colonial Office."

Miasma Ficção, Léa Katharina Meier, Suisse, 2023, 26’
Once upon a time in Brazil, a Cheese wants to know who brought the Matterhorn to Nova Friburgo. In his quest, he has to face the living statue of William Tell. Will the Cheese find the answer to his question? Only the Miasma, who is telling the story, holds the key…