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The director Boris Lojkine takes us to the Central African Republic, in the footsteps of Camille Lepage, a young French photojournalist murdered in 2014. The actress Nina Meurisse takes the title role in "Camille", a film awarded by the Locarno Film Festival's public prize. will be released this Wednesday October 16th in theaters in France.
In May 2014, Bangui is on the verge of civil war. The Seleka, from the Muslim north, faces the anti-Balaka, Christian militia self-defense. Camille, a 26-year-old photojournalist, is reporting in the provinces. A few days later, she is murdered, shot in the head, in an ambush.
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" What I found interesting with Camille, Boris Lojkine argues, was to approach this profession in a way quite different to what I saw in the cinema before. First, because she's a woman, a young woman. The fact that it is a young woman shifts us completely clichés of virility, adrenaline. That's what I found really exciting in addressing this subject through Camille. "
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Boris Lojkine, already noticed in 2015 for Hope , a film about African migrants, wanted to turn on the scene of the disappearance of Camille Lepage. In Bangui, he created documentary workshops to train young people in the cinema. A long-term work, but that paid off, since these young people were then able to participate in the shooting of the film.