Extract from "Soccer Granies" by Clément Boxebeld and Julia Mourri presented at the Festival Debouts -

Clément Boxebeld and Julia Mourri

  • From January 11 to 15, the Debouts festival hosted by ImagoTV, unveils one film per evening, followed by a debate.

  • The five documentaries converge around several themes: healing, dignity, inner strength, collective success.

  • Zoom on three films from the selection that offer the keys to feeling better.

In this period of the Covid-19 pandemic punctuated by confinements and curfews, the morale of the French has taken a hit.

While the medical community warns against a wave of psychiatry, the independent festival Debouts *, organized by the Kamea meah association, arrives this Monday as a manual to rediscover the joy of living in this particularly gloomy time.

Put together in just three months by five confined directors, the virtual event is hosted on ImagoTV, the committed and united documentary platform, and reflects, through five films, on the means to overcome the difficulties of life.

Zoom on three hopeful documentaries.

"Soccer Granies", football to regain health

Who said football was exclusively for young men?

Soccer Granies

(or Mamies Foot) sets up its camera in South Africa where a bunch of grannies have been passionate about football for years.

Aged over 60, they have fought the trials of their lives (cancer, diabetes, disability) by meeting every morning, at dawn, at the stadium to train.

Clément Boxebeld and Julia Mourri accompany this group of enthusiasts to France to face the hexagonal team - much less trained - during the Women's World Cup of football organized in 2019. A sporting break that twists the necks of prejudices about old age .

These women are between 70 and 90 years old and they sparkle like young girls.

A moving optimism which is reminiscent of the brilliant

Benda Bilili!

.

"Those who wanted to heal", a dive into the world of ayahuasca

Detour through Peru, in the Takiwasi center which helps drug addicts to treat their addictions using traditional medicine.

Louis Bidou and Aurélie Marques' camera sets out to meet patients from all over the world, who with great modesty reveal their wounds.

In this health journey, time slows down to the rhythm of ayahuasca decoctions and therapeutic rituals where patients experience this liana of Amazonian origin known for its hallucinatory virtues.

Surrounded by nature, patients regain a taste for life every day.

A fine example of psychological “resurrection” which could prove that those traumatized by confinement in the city are right: happiness could well be hidden in the return to nature.

"Here and now", happiness in the little things in life

This short documentary is included in the selection as the counterpart of

Those who wanted to heal

.

He gives the floor to former residents of the Therapeutic Community of Aubervilliers who have succeeded in fighting their addiction.

Here and Now

opens his microphone to a dozen former drug addicts who recount their personal collapse and how they succeeded in rebuilding on ruins.

Inspirational words that give some keys to find happiness when the fog envelops our daily life.

* The festival writes “Debouts” with an S to insist on living together, no offense to the Académie Française.

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