Direct Action
Synopsis
In January 2018, the construction of an airport in rural Notre-Dame-des-Landes was officially canceled, putting an end to years of resistance led by one of the most important activist communities in France. From 2022-2023, filmmakers Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell immersed themselves in the ZAD (zone-to-defend) to create a portrait of collective life in the years after this unprecedented success. The resulting work documents the transformation of a local struggle into a new ecological protest movement - culminating with the Battle of Sainte-Soline in March 2023, where an act of collective direct action against water privatization was again met by the brutality of State violence.
Credits
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : VOLTE Film
- Foreign production company : CaskFilms
- Film exports/foreign sales : Shellac
- French distribution : Shellac
Full credits (9)
- Director of Photography : Ben Russell
- Editors : Ben Russell, Guillaume Cailleau
- Sound recordists : Bruno Auzet, Nicolas Becker, Rob Walker
- Foreign Producer : Guillaume Cailleau
- Co-producer : Michel Balagué
- Press Attaché (film) : Chloé Lorenzi
- Grader : Sergi Sanchez
- Sound Mixer : Rob Walker
- Sound design : Rob Walker, Nicolas Becker
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Documentary
- Coproducer countries : Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2024
- French release : 20/11/2024
- Runtime : 3 h 36 min
- Current status : Released
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- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : 5.1
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News & awards
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Selections (11)
Awards (2)
Berlin International Film Festival
Germany, 2024
"Tagesspiegel" Readers Award - Special Mention
Encounters -Award for Best Film
