33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
WAVES 2015

FAIRE LA PAROLE

FAIRE LA PAROLE
by Eugène Green
Country: France
Year: 2015
Duration: 116


Four teenagers from the Basque Country (specifically from the northern provinces of Navarra and Guipuzkoa) talk about their world and their culture in their ancient and mysterious language. They grew up speaking and studying in Basque, and they always experienced their origins serenely, unlike the other teenagers they meet along the way that grew up surrounded by violence and sorrow. Accompanied by the voice of the great writer Joseba Sarrionandia and traditional bertso songs, Faire la parole (or hitza egin in Basque) is a journey through the generations of the Basque population, and across two borders: the one between the country’s north and south, and the one separating matter and spirit. 

Biography

film director

Eugène Green

(New York, USA, 1947) moved to Paris in 1969, where in 1977 he founded the Théâtre de la Sapience, with which he staged various Baroque and modern plays. He made his directorial debut with Toutes les nuits, Prix Delluc for best debut film in 2001. He then directed Le nom du feu, presented in Locarno in 2002 and distributed together with Le monde vivant, which took part in the Directors' Fortinight. With Correspondances he was awarded in 2007, together with Harun Farocki and Pedro Costa, the special jury prize in Locarno, where he returned to competition in 2009 with A Religiosa Portuguesa and in 2014 with La Sapienza, shot between Switzerland and Italy. In 2011 TFF dedicated a retrospective to him and then went on to program several of his films, such as the documentary filmed in the Basque Country Faire la parole (2015), Le fils de Joseph (2016), which premiered at the Berlinale, and the workshop film En attendant les Barbares (2017). In 2020 he returned to the Basque Country to shoot Atarrabi et Mikelats, which was presented in San Sebastian. In addition to his activity as a director, he also works as a writer and poet.

FILMOGRAFIA

Toutes les nuits (2001), Le nom du feu (cm, 2002), Le monde vivant (2003), Le pont des arts (2004), Les signes (mm, 2006), Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2007: Memories (ep. Corrispondences, mm, 2007), A Religiosa Portuguesa (2009), La sapienza (2014), Faire la parole (doc., 2015), Le fils de Joseph (2016), En attendant les Barbares (2017), Como Fernando Pessoa salvou Portugal (cm, 2017), Lisboa revisitada (cm, 2019). Atarrabi et Mikelats (2020), Le mur des morts (2022).

Declaration

film director

“Faire la parole is an attempt to give one of the most ancient populations in Europe a way to express themselves, through images, music, words, and to use the poetry of cinema to evoke a political situation.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Eugène Green
fotografia/cinematography
Raphaël O’Byrne
montaggio/film editing
Laurence Larre
suono/sound
Pablo Bevero Zabalo, Alazne Amestoi
interpreti/cast
Ugaitz Aguirre, Anna Imaz, Ortzi Murna Berra, Aitor Servier Etchechuri, Nora Arbelbide Lete, Thierry Biscary
produttore/producer
Nora Philippe
produzione/production
Les films de l’air


contatti/contacts
Les films de l’air
Vincent Roullet
vincentroullet@hotmail.com
www.lesfilmsdelair.com
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