Je suis noires, with a deliberate and determined s. This is how Rachel M’Bon titles her film, which is being presented at the FIFDH. The journalist and activist went to meet black women in Switzerland, gathering their experiences, attentive to what they live on a daily basis, in a country that is said and believed to be tolerant.
It is not so obvious. The film was painful at times,” she says, “but also cathartic, and political, as society is not ready to accept vulnerability. Rachel M’Bon hopes that the film will help create new black narratives.
Realised by Genève Vision, around the movie Je suis noires
About Voies libres
Whatever fiction or documentary, they have pointed their cameras at the sensitive areas of humanity. War, migration, the weight of tradition and patriarchy, the environmental crisis, post-colonialism, everything is subject to narrative. How do human rights and their defence permeate the language of film?
Conversely, what role does the seventh art play in social mobilisations? In this podcast, which gives the floor to filmmakers invited to the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights Geneva, Voies Libres explores the link between cinema and activism.
Voies Libres is a podcast produced by RTS Genève Vision and the FIFDH.
Interviews and direction: Laura Cazador