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Didy
Didy
Switzerland | 2024 | 90 min | Documentary
Director: Gaël Kamilindi e François-Xavier Destors
Screenplay: Gaël Kamilindi e François-Xavier Destors
Cinematography: Eva Sehet
Synopsis
What remains, thirty years later, of the memory of a mother that a son never had the time to know? Gaël Kamilindi was only five years old when his mother Didy died. The memories of her presence have since been lost in the fury of the civil wars, genocide and AIDS. These trials ravaged Burundi and then Rwanda, precipitating his exile to Switzerland. Today, he ventures to reopen the pages of his family history by meeting the men and women who knew, loved and guided her, and who, each in their own way, possess a fragment of Didy. Returning to Rwanda in Didy's footsteps, Gaël sketches a portrait of his mother and of a generation of Rwandan women who have survived the worst.
About the directors
Graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris in 2011, Gaël Kamilindi is an actor. A Swiss national originally from Rwanda and Israel, he has worked with directors including Bob Wilson, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Denis Podalydès, Ivo Van Hove and Thomas Ostermeir. For the small and big screens, he works with Mona Achache, Philippe Garrel, Eleonore Pourriat, Stéphane Ly-Cuong, Mélanie Laurent and Catherine Corsini. Since February 2017, he has been a member of the Comédie-Française troupe. DIDY, which he co-directs with François-Xavier Destors, is his first film as a director.
Os filmes de François-Xavier Destors exploram o lado invisível dos crimes em massa. Seu compromisso como cineasta foi forjado em Ruanda, entre os sobreviventes do genocídio Tútsi. Seu primeiro documentário de longa-metragem, Rwanda, la surface de réparation (2014), conta a história do genocídio através do papel social, político e cultural do esporte em Ruanda. Ele é autor de vários documentários históricos, como Les voix de Srebrenica, Paris, une histoire capitale , and Les années 68. Norilsk, l’étreinte de glace (2018) é uma exploração cinematográfica de nossa capacidade de nos adaptar e sobreviver à história coletiva de nossas sociedades industriais. Junto com seus filmes para televisão (como Mandela, um Símbolo Contra o Apartheid , and Thiaroye 44), François-Xavier Destors continua sua exploração cinematográfica de territórios sacrificados ao desvendar um ecocídio às portas da Europa com Toxicily (2024). Didy é seu terceiro longa-metragem como diretor.