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Bears, wolves, ibex, bison… vividly present beneath the rays of a winter sun. Far away in the snow of a frozen mountain, they emerge from a lost dream we long to grasp once more. Four wildlife specialists take us on an exploration of wild worlds through healing, scientific inquiry, art, and “living with.” These four weavers of worlds invite us to shift our perspective and rethink how we inhabit the world, with power and poetry.
The screening of Animus femina will be followed by a discussion. With: Éliane de Latour, the director. An anthropologist [emeritus research director, CNRS /EHESS], she has conducted research in France, Africa, and India. Through documentary and fiction films, photography, and scientific and literary writing, she explores the closed worlds of those pushed behind physical or social boundaries. Sara Labrousse, one of the film’s four protagonists. A CNRS research fellow at the LOCEAN laboratory and a specialist in Antarctic marine biology, Sara studies penguins and seals, sentinels of the upheavals affecting the oceans. Faced with persistent denial, she warns of the disruption occurring at the South Pole while questioning the carbon footprint of her own scientific work. Together with others, she is seeking less resource-intensive methods in the hope of forging an ethical relationship with living beings. About the film: Each in her own way, the four remarkable women portrayed by filmmaker and anthropologist Éliane de Latour strive to mend our broken bond with the animal world. One cares for stranded feathered and furry creatures at her hospital in the Cévennes, where another draws and paints them. A third studies seals and penguins threatened in the near term by Antarctic warming. The fourth—arguably the most memorable—works tirelessly to live in harmony with wildlife in a rewilded area of Asturias. Beyond their radiant personalities, this documentary shines through the sensitivity and accuracy with which it portrays the animals themselves. François Ekchajzer, Télérama This is cinema with wings, turning as if by magic. Eithne O'Neill, Positif A film of love as much as anger, Animus Femina blends harmonious and unsettling images to sound a powerful alarm over humanity’s tragic lack of regard for the wildlife around it. Bo. B., Le Monde Online registration opens on August 31.
Price: Online registration opens on August 31: https://www.billetweb.fr/animus-femina-projection-debat
Source: paris.fr — photo: Eliane de Latour