“From conquest confronts us with a page too quickly turned from the French national novel. Boldly, Franssou Pris brings together a community of complicit voices who read in a neutral tone a succession of archives (reports, testimonies, memories, considerations, historical, geographical, urbanistic, etc.). They recount the stages of the colonization of Algeria by France between 1830 and 1848 and draw the ideological landscape of a staggering annihilation enterprise.” Claire Lasolle
Screening followed by an exchange with Franssou Prendre
Franssou Prenant was born in 1952. The filmmaker working mainly in Super-8 directed L'Escale de Guinée (1987), Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde (2000) and Sous le ciel lumineux de son pays natal (2002). She was also a screenwriter, actress and editor for Raymond Depardon, Romain Goupil and Jacques Kébadian.
Her own films have been selected in numerous festivals, in France and abroad: IndieLisboa (Portugal), la Viennale (Austria), IFFR (Netherlands), EntreVues – Belfort Film Festival, Côté court, Visions du Réel (Switzerland)…
His latest film, De la conquest, was selected in 2022 at the Rencontres du cinéma documentaire de Montreuil, the États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas and FIDMarseille.