David Dufresne, blue and bumps

"A country that stands wise", the new film by David Dufresne.

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2 min

For his first feature film, writer and filmmaker David Dufresne presents a shocking documentary on police violence.

"A country that keeps itself wise" is released on September 30, 2020 on French screens.

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It is a shocking film, which will not leave anyone indifferent, and which will revive the debate on a particularly sensitive issue in France.

Between tear gas, baton blows and explosive grenades,

plunges us into the heart of police violence, especially those that have been around social networks during the movement of "yellow vests".

Through sometimes unbearable images, poignant testimonies and powerful analyzes, his film upsets, disturbs, questions the complicated relationship between the police and the people, between order and democracy, between legitimate violence and the legitimacy of the State.

“A country that keeps itself wise” comes out next Wednesday (September 30, 2020) on French screens.

Sophie Divry

is a writer.

She published

, published by Le Seuil.

This is a collection of testimonies from 5 demonstrators who lost a hand during the repression of the “yellow vests” demonstrations.

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went to the Zinsou Foundation in Ouidah, Benin to visit the “Agbara women” exhibition which highlights the work of Beninese photographer Ishola Akpo.

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