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Le Vénérable W.

Please note that this event is now archived.
Documentary

Sessions

Friday, 13 April 2018 | 15:00 La Maison du Cinéma
Sunday, 15 April 2018 | 18:00 La Maison du Cinéma

                                    Poster of Le Vénérable W.

Sélection Officielle – Séance spéciale – Festival de Cannes
Sélection – Compétition documentaire – Festival international du film de Stockholm – 2017

« The Venerable W. » by Barbet Schroeder is the last instalment in the director’s « Trilogy of Evil », which began with General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974), and continued with Terror’s Advocate (Certain Regard Cannes 2007 and winner of the César for Best Documentary in 2008). This time the director goes to Burma, into the heart of everyday racism, to explore how Islamophobia and hate speech transforms itself into violence and destruction in a country that is 90 percent Buddhist – the world’s most peaceful of religions, founded on a tolerant, non-violent way of life.

Director

Barbet Schroeder

Screenplay

Barbet Schroeder

Country

France and Switzerland

Year

2017

Duration

1h40

Category

Documentary

Language

French

Production

Les Films du Losange

Distribution

FunFilm
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About

Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder (born 26 August 1941) is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. Since the late 1980s he has directed many big budget Hollywood films, often mixing melodrama with the thriller genre in films like Single White Female, Kiss of Death, and Murder by Numbers. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and for the Palme d’Or for his 1987 film Barfly.

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