La Combattante

Somewhere in Paris, an old lady awaits a visit. For a long time, she was an ethnologist, specialist of the region of Darfur, a country that has never left her. The visitors she receives diligently, day after day, do not come there just for tea. What they are looking for is the crucial help that only this 90-year-old woman can give them. They are survivors of the genocide that has struck the populations of Darfur since 2003. Drawing on her knowledge of Sudan, Marie-José can authenticate their stories and thus allow them to obtain political asylum in France. She is the only one who can save them from being deported to Sudan, which would mean death for them. During each visit, the old lady’s apartment then becomes the closed doors of an exchange that is intensely truthful…

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Quelque part sous les toits de Paris, une vieille dame attend de la visite. Longtemps, elle a été ethnologue, spécialiste du Darfour, une contrée qui ne l’a jamais quittée. Les visiteurs qu’elle reçoit, jour après jour, ne viennent pas jusque-là pour prendre le thé. Ce qu’ils viennent chercher, c’est l’aide cruciale que seule cette femme de 90 ans peut leur donner. Ils sont des rescapés du génocide qui frappe les populations du Darfour depuis 2003.

Le film La Combattante est sorti en salles le 5 octobre 2022.