Tag: recounts
Chad: one year after “Black Thursday”, a Koro Toro survivor recounts the hell of the penal colony
On October 20, 2022, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in N’Djamena to demand elections and the departure of the military in power. The march, banned by the authorities,…
Between the I and the Game, Dominique Blanc recounts her career as a theater actress
On television, in the cinema and on the boards, since the beginning of his career in the late 80s, Dominique Blanc is everywhere. Resident of the Comédie Française in 2016,…
Mojgan Ilanlou, Iranian documentary filmmaker, recounts the struggle of women in a patriarchal society
Mojgan Ilanlou is one of the first Iranian filmmakers to come out without a veil at the start of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. She then shared photos of herself…
Cinema: Fyzal Boulifa recounts the margins of Moroccan society in “The damned do not cry”
After a long wandering, a mother and her 17-year-old son settle in Tangier hoping for a fresh start. After The Damned Don’t Cry, his second feature film, British director of…
Literature: Rwandan novelist Dominique Celis recounts post-genocide society
Thus men cry is the first novel by the Belgian-Rwandan Dominique Celis, published last year. An epistolary story, eminently sensitive and powerful, which puts the Rwandan tragedy back on the…
With “Les Filles d’Olfa”, Kaouther Ben Hania recounts the violence suffered by women in Tunisia
“Les Filles d’Olfa”, the new film by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, is released today in French cinemas. It is inspired by a news item that hit the headlines and…
Imminent death: her heart stopped beating for 3 minutes, she recounts her experience
News Published on 06/15/2023 at 2:46 p.m. Updated 06/15/2023 at 2:46 p.m. Reading 2 mins. Victim of a heatstroke that could have been fatal to her, Jade, a 36-year-old American,…
France: a Rwandan survivor recounts the Nyamure hill massacre
Philippe Manier’s trial continues before the Paris Assize Court. This former chief warrant officer of the gendarmerie of Nyanza, in the prefecture of Butare in southern Rwanda, is being prosecuted…
“As soon as I turned 18, there were no limits”: Elliot Page recounts the attacks he suffered
The Canadian actor has released his autobiography, “Pageboy”, in which he reveals the difficulties he experienced in coming to terms with his identity in Hollywood, revealing to have suffered sexual…
A former member of Wagner recounts the horror in Bakhmout: “Russian soldiers are bastards”
In the almost deserted restaurant car, the man staggers to the rhythm of the tremors of this night train leaving Rostov-on-the-Don, near the Ukrainian border, and bound for Moscow. He…