• A father and his daughter decided to go on an adventure in the footsteps of the Mercantour wolves and to film this experience.

  • After three years of filming, they are releasing their documentary in preview this Saturday at the cinema in Tende.

  • The film will then be broadcast on France 3 in mid-December.

" Wolf are you there ? », Sings Naïs, a child of barely 2 years old at the time, on the back of her father Rémy Masséglia, who walks on the paths of Mercantour, in the Alpes-Maritimes. This scene is part of 

Naïs au pays des loups,

a documentary which retraces the “poetic and unique” adventure of a father and his daughter in search of wolves. After three years of filming in the Roya mountains, these people from Breillers are previewing their film this Saturday at the cinema in Tende, before being broadcast on France 3 in mid-December.

In these 52 minutes, hundreds of kilometers of hiking, in the snow, in the rain or in the middle of summer, hours of collected images, nights of bivouac, under the stars or in a tent.

A summary of the “useless and fabulous quest” of Rémy and Naïs: “Observe the wolves, these animals which we know the existence but which we never see”, tells the videographer who saw his life change by carrying out this project .

“By being constantly connected to nature for three years, we have been able to see the fauna evolve in our privacy and understand what is happening there.

There is something great about telling yourself that you are witness to it and that at the same time, you are part of it.

We were also able to observe the life of species that were thought to have disappeared from the territory, ”he confides.

"Adventure, the priority"

An adventure which was especially thought to be lived with his daughter Naïs, aged one year at the beginning of the project. “I always had the idea of ​​raising my daughter in contact with the environment and Roya is the best place for that. Having him with me allowed me to see things at his level and to think differently. She still has no awareness of the originality of what she is experiencing. For her, nature is her daily life. The film is also a way of leaving a trace of all these unique moments in life and of its poetic connection with biodiversity ”.

The documentary was then modeled on the impressions of the child, his expressions and his comments.

"We each respected our rhythms in addition to that of the environment because adventure was the priority", specifies the father.

So as not to disturb the wild world, they put cameras on the trees of the Mercantour, which are triggered at the slightest movement.

The two adventurers then used the images to try to refine their strategy.

“Taking three years of filming time allowed us to experience the seasons and cycles three times and to be able to anticipate the year after”.

On the way to a second project

It also allowed Naïs to grow up and become completely at ease in nature. She now knows how to recognize animal tracks, the different species of flowers, and has acquired all the technical vocabulary in this field. And Rémy also learned thanks to this project. “At first I was an inexperienced dad. It was Gwenn, the mother, who put in my bag and my gestures everything it took for a man to become a father. She also did the entire soundtrack. This father daughter adventure was made possible thanks to a whole team ”.

A job that has already been recognized.

Naïs au pays des loups

received the award for best documentary at the Golden bee international children's film festival, a children's film festival in India.

So nothing can stop them.

Naïs will go on an expedition with her father "for a new tale filmed on ghostly animals".

And still in the Mercantour which has "a wealth of biodiversity unique in Europe".

"No need to go on a big expedition to the other side of the world when you are lucky enough to have rare animals in front of us", concludes Rémy.

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