French without histories
Raphaël Pillosio / 2009 / 84 min
In co-production with 24 Images
Whether of Gypsy, Manouche, Yeniche or Roma origin, or simply poor people living in caravans, French citizens were interned as “Nomads” during the Second World War. More than twenty-five camps, scattered across France, imprisoned around 6,000 people between May 1940 and May 1946.
This film goes in search of the last remnants of this past, the places that keep this history secret and the few internees whose memory lives on.
Fiche technique
Photography: Jérémie Jorrand
Sound: Fabrice Marache
Editing: Aurélien Manya
Projections et festivals
LM Télévision / 24 Images / Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah / Région des Pays de la Loire / Région Poitou-Charentes / CNC
Film supported by the 2010 collective, a year dedicated to the internment of Nomads from 1939 to 1946.
Festival Itinérances (Ales), Festival Bobines Sociales (Paris), Festival de Douarnerez, FIPATEL (Biarritz), Festival Résistances (Foix), FID Marseille (video library), Festival des Libertés de Bruxelles (video library), Traces de Vies (video library), Festival de cinéma d'Attac (Bruxelles), Nuits atypiques de Langon, Festival Latcho Divano (Marseille) Festival Dedans/Dehors (Mantes La Jolie) Festival du documentaire engagé (Lot)
Screenings in Utopia and CLAP networks (Art et d'Essai cinemas in Poitou-Charentes), Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris), Mémorial de Rivesaltes (Journées Européennes du Patrimoine), Mois du film documentaire, Colloque Tsiganes / Nomades un malentendu européen, Colloque international l'art, l'éducation et le politique (Université de Poitiers), Goethe Institut (Nancy), Forum Irts (Nancy), Gabi Jimenez exhibition (Cergy), Les Champs libres (Rennes), Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), Musée d'Aquitaine (Bordeaux), Peuple et Culture, CCAS...
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