France 5 broadcasts Tuesday evening in the first part of the evening a strong and original documentary: "Draw me a face".

This film follows the daily life, between family, school and hospital, of four young people who, following an accident or a birth defect, must undergo facial reconstruction operations.

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How do we grow up when our face is different, sometimes inspires fear, and our daily life is rocked by hospital and operations?

This is what the documentary

Dessine-moi un visage

, shown on Tuesday evening on France 5,

shows with kindness 

. This film follows the daily life of four people: a little boy, Gabriel, two teenage girls, Clara and Ninon, and a young adult , Thomas.

They have all undergone, and some still undergo, heavy facial operations, following an accident or birth defects.

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These numerous surgeries gradually transform their face, and the four young people must be patient, while facing the gaze of others.

According to Maud Vazquez, co-director of the documentary, Gabriel, Clara, Ninon and Thomas do it with incredible force.

A co-director who grew up in a dedicated hospital service

"They have already had to learn to manage the hospital, to go there a lot, to accept the care, the pain and the procedures. They have to readjust to their new face after each operation. All of this has created them extraordinary strength and ability to adapt to oneself, ”she explains. "And then because they are absent from school a lot. When they come back, they must succeed in readjusting, catching up on lessons. They are very autonomous and independent."

So many things that can be seen and heard in this documentary in which Gabriel, Ninon, Clara and Thomas confide without difficulty.

The four of them tell their story to their faces and the harassment they have suffered.

They confided in all the more easily as the co-director is the daughter of Professor Marie Paule Vazquez, who created the maxillofacial surgery department at Necker hospital in Paris more than 20 years ago.

Adults not always tender with the difference

As a child, Maud Vazquez walked the corridors of the hospital and played with these children with different faces. "I found that sometimes they had faces that scared me. And, at the same time, I saw that they functioned like me: we laughed together, we played the same games ...", she recalls. "My mom finally gave me the urge to go to them and try to understand them non-verbally."

"We should really do an education in difference. We should integrate that into school," said the co-director. “What amazed me when I met children is that adults too can be violent with them, insulting them or hiding their own children's eyes so that they cannot see their faces. " The documentary 

Dessine-moi un visage

, directed by Maud Vazquez and Caroline Darroquy, is broadcast Tuesday evening at 8:50 pm on France 5. It will be followed by a debate moderated by Marine Carrère d'Encausse.