Synopsis
Connecting continents, voices and events that are seemingly unrelated, The Apologist asks how we live with the scars of shared violence. A Belgian actor works with a Belgian-Congolese collaborator to confront their country's colonial past, while a political commission wrestles with reconciliation. In El Salvador, a ritual honours those lost to a massacre. Unexpected voices cut through the noise, asking the questions we might not think to ask ourselves. We search for reparation in different ways: through theatre, political process, song, or the careful work of stitching memory so it is not lost. Brutal and gentle by turns, The Apologist traces the fragile spaces between memory, pain and reconciliation, asking what it means not only to seek forgiveness, but to receive it.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Co-productions : Warboys Films, Tangerine Productions
- Foreign production companies : Wrong Men, Limerick Films
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producers : Sarah Skrodzka, Rémi Grellety
- Screenwriter : Kristof Bilsen
- Directors of Photography : Joachim Philippe, Kristof Bilsen, Diren Agbaba
- Editor : Luca Mattei
- Sound Recordist : Xan Márquez Caneda
- Foreign producers : Kristof Bilsen, Benoît Roland
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Documentary
- Themes : Society, History
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium, The Netherlands
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2026
- French release :
- Runtime : 1 h 22 min
- Current status :
- Approval :
