Le Mois du doc : Château Rouge | Projection-débat

The screening will be followed by a debate echoing the film to reflect on "educational hospitality around teenagers".

With:

Hélène Milano, the director. Hélène Milano is an actress and filmmaker. She began her career in theater where she acted in and directed numerous plays before turning to cinema. She has directed several short fiction films as well as documentary films for television and cinema. Among these films, Les Roses Noires and Les Charbons Ardents, joined by her latest documentary Château Rouge (screened at ACID Cannes 2024), form a triptych devoted to youth.

and Joëlle Bordet, psychosociologist. Joëlle Bordet has worked for more than 30 years with young people in working-class neighborhoods and on urban policy. She works in the field of action research: she meets young people and uses their stories, combined with scientific tools, to produce public policy proposals that she submits to requesting stakeholders. She was part of the Centre scientifique et technique du bâtiment and created an international research network titled "Jeunes, inégalités et périphéries", active for over 20 years. Her current research with nine countries, researchers, artists, and educators focuses on how young people experience threats, how they transform them, and how to support them.

About the film:

Château rouge is the name of a metro station in Paris. From here people depart and arrive. Many of those who live here arrived recently after a very long journey. They left behind lives, colors, landscapes, sometimes loves. A part of them is not here. They hope for a better future for themselves but especially for their children, and hope most often resides in the life they will be able to offer them through school. Collège Georges Clemenceau occupies a central place in the neighborhood. It is the place where every day adults responsible for education, teenage boys and girls, student educators, and hopeful parents meet. They share precious time that, for each of them, anchors unforgettable and foundational life moments. Day after day, paths are built.

Excerpts from an interview with filmmaker Hélène Milano,

It is a question for students, at a pivotal moment in their lives, of resigned hopes and broken dreams. Hélène Milano questions with finesse and tenacity this transition from one year to the next, from one institution to the next, from one age to another. We thus owe to Château Rouge, far from the red carpet of the same color, one of the most memorable sequences of Cannes.

Thierry Méranger, Les Cahiers du Cinéma