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THE OTHER PROFILE

LE VRAI DU VAUX

By Armel HOSTIOU

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Documentary - Completed 2023

French filmmaker Armel Hostiou discovers he has a second Facebook account: a fake Armel who has real photos of him and many female friends, all of whom live in Kinshasa. Faced with the impossibility of closing this account, the filmmaker decides to go looking for his double.

Festivals
& Awards

Zurich FF 2023
International Documentary Film Competition
CPH:DOX 2023
DOX:AWARD Competition
Cinéma du Réel 2023
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    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, LINGALA
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Armel HOSTIOU
    • Producer(s)
    • Jasmina SIJERČIĆ (BOCALUPO FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • One day French filmmaker Armel Hostiou discovers he has a second Facebook account: a fake Armel who uses photos of the real him and who has many female friends, all of whom live in Kinshasa. According to the profile, the fake Armel invites these women to audition for his next film, which is supposedly set in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After having discovered the existence of his other profile, the filmmaker’s first reaction was to notify Facebook about what clearly seemed for him an identity theft, naively thinking that this will be solved quickly. Two weeks later he received a message from the social platform, declining his request because according to them this other profile was not a false one. Meanwhile the double was publishing more and more messages about the auditions he was organizing.

      Bewildered, the real Armel decides to travel to Kinshasa in order to look for his double himself. He’s welcomed in the artist residency ‘La Vie Est Belle’ – straight in the heart of the lively Matonge neighbourhood. Conscious of the complexity of a quest in the massive city of Kinshasa, the residency’s manager, Peter, and Sarah, one of the artists, immediately decide to help him. Days are filled with absurd meetings with lawyers, IT specialists, marabouts – anyone who could help get them on the right path. Time is running out, the tiredness rising, and slowly Hostiou’s hope in finding his digital double fades. Until a an old fisherman crosses his path, taking the filmmaker on a totally new type of journey. New horizons open up and the borders between the true and false Armel start to blur.
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