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Starring: a movie heroine cow

"Vedette", a film by Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard.

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“Legends never die”: this applies to Marylin Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson or Vedette… Vedette is the apt name of a true cinema heroine.

And this heroine is a venerable cow who reigned over her Swiss mountain pastures for many years before stepping down.

Two documentarians, Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard, followed and filmed her, with her breeders Elise and Nicole, during several mountain runs.

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They talk to us about the relationship between humans and animals and about this question, ultimately as political as it is poetic, of considering animals as living beings endowed with sensitivity.

On the bill of our cinema also this week: 

the first cinema film ever shot on the island of Mayotte, this French department located in the Comoros archipelago, this film is

which we are talking about with its director

.

Our correspondent in Lithuania,

, talks about the Vilnius film festival which has decided to deprogram Russian films out of solidarity with Ukraine.

And then we welcome the return of the Beninese

, the director, screenwriter, producer, actor, composer publishes his autobiography: the black director and is editing his new feature film.

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