“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.
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.
Also showing in our cinema this week : the first cinema film ever shot on the island of Mayotte, this French department located in the Comoros archipelago, this film is Tropic of violence, about which we speak with its director Manuel Schapira.
Our correspondent in Lithuania, Marielle Vitureautalks about the Vilnius film festival which has decided to deprogram Russian films in solidarity with Ukraine.
And then we welcome the return of the Beninese Jean Odoutanthe director, screenwriter, producer, actor, composer publishes his autobiography: the black director and is editing his new feature film.