La Lumière des femmes
Réalisation
Antoine DEPEYRE, Élise DARBLAY
In the Peul kingdom of Fouta-Toro, between Senegal and Mauritania, isolated villages subsist without electricity and are totally off-grid. An NGO is training women to use solar energy, but they have to be allowed to go to town for long weeks at a time. The men resist. But led by Néné, in her fifties, a dozen wives defy the ban. By taking their destiny into their own hands, they are also changing the fate of the village.
Réalisé par
Antoine DEPEYRE, Élise DARBLAY
Photographie
Elise DARBLAY & Antoine DEPEYRE
Montage
Géraud TRUEL
Musique
Jean-François MORY
Production
FEDERATION STUDIO FRANCE
Co-Production
Joachim LANDAU (Federation MEAC)
Distribution
Federation International
Ventes
Federation International
Réalisé par
Antoine DEPEYRE
Antoine Depeyre began his career in the mountains in search of his limits in international snowboarding competitions. After 10 years, he radically changed direction and moved into filming. Antoine quickly became a cinematographer for documentaries, fiction and television programs, and then a documentary writer and director. His apprenticeship is empirical and instinctive. He moves forward with strength and commitment, seeking first to challenge himself and then to challenge his viewers.
He has directed numerous documentaries for Canal+, ARTE and France Télévision. In recent years, the co-direction partnership he forms with Elise Darblay has grown stronger, becoming their main mode of working. Their expertise is particularly strong in immersive, two-camera films, where they get up close and personal with their characters.
He has directed numerous documentaries for Canal+, ARTE and France Télévision. In recent years, the co-direction partnership he forms with Elise Darblay has grown stronger, becoming their main mode of working. Their expertise is particularly strong in immersive, two-camera films, where they get up close and personal with their characters.
Élise DARBLAY
After studying Ethnology (EHESS), specializing in gender and sexuality in Asia, Elise Darblay turned to documentary filmmaking. Initially a writer, she completed her training at the École des Gobelins to put into images what upsets and questions her. Her approach to filmmaking is organic and immersive. Each of her films is a quest to explore some aspect of our humanity. Through the men and women who transform themselves in front of her camera, she tries to grow and pass on what they have taught her.
A family locked within its borders in Nagorno Karabakh, elderly people swollen by desire in New York, a leather worker addicted to what poisons her in Bangladesh, a choreographer using fear as a guide, dancers sacrificing family and body to their passion.
Arte, France TV, Canal+ and Public Sénat are just some of the French channels that trust her for the human adventures she proposes. Festivals have rewarded her work: FIGRA, Terra di TUTTI, UNAFF, Bourges, Rory Peck Awards, the Montréal Film Festival.
Today, in creative partnership with Antoine Depeyre, immersion is their main modus operandi. They shot their latest film over two years, witnessing the birth of free will in the minds of the women they followed.
Together, they question the impact of their films on the men and women they accompany, and on the world around them.
A family locked within its borders in Nagorno Karabakh, elderly people swollen by desire in New York, a leather worker addicted to what poisons her in Bangladesh, a choreographer using fear as a guide, dancers sacrificing family and body to their passion.
Arte, France TV, Canal+ and Public Sénat are just some of the French channels that trust her for the human adventures she proposes. Festivals have rewarded her work: FIGRA, Terra di TUTTI, UNAFF, Bourges, Rory Peck Awards, the Montréal Film Festival.
Today, in creative partnership with Antoine Depeyre, immersion is their main modus operandi. They shot their latest film over two years, witnessing the birth of free will in the minds of the women they followed.
Together, they question the impact of their films on the men and women they accompany, and on the world around them.
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