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MARY-JO WILL SEE YOU AT 4

MARIE-JOSÉ VOUS ATTEND À 16H

By Camille PONSIN

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Social issues - Completed 2022

Marie-José receives daily strange visitors in her living room. Ethnologist specializing in Darfur, those she receives do not come only to have tea. They come to ask for the crucial help that only this 90 year old woman can give them.

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FIPA 2022
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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Camille PONSIN
    • Synopsis
    • Somewhere in Paris, in a small living room with old-fashioned charm, an old lady awaits a visit. For a long time, she was an ethnologist, specialist of the region of Darfur, a country that has never left her. The visitors she receives diligently, day after day, do not come there just for tea. What they are looking for is the crucial help that only this 90-year-old woman can give them. All have black skin, all have haggard eyes, all are survivors of the genocide that has struck the populations of Darfur since 2003. Drawing on her knowledge of Sudan, Marie-José can authenticate their stories and thus allow them to obtain political asylum in France. She is the only one who can save them from being deported to Sudan, which would mean death for them. During each visit, the old lady's apartment then becomes the closed doors of an exchange that is intensely truthful…
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