2025
Documentary · 72 min
Traversées
A choral portrait of seven survivors of the Sahel routes. A film about memory, the body, and the reconquest of speech.
Art & Culture
Art, the second language of exile
When words fail, the image, the stage and the story take over. Our works are offerings to memory and to justice.
Programme
Our works
As at a festival, each work is presented with its format, its year of production and a synopsis.
2024
Short film · 24 min
Les Voix de la nuit
Inspired by letters smuggled out of Libyan jails, a poetic work filmed between Pacé and Palermo.
2026
Fiction · 96 min · in production
Promesses
A mother crosses Europe to find a trace of her missing son. A French-Senegalese co-production supported by the association.
Transmission
Workshops & training
Writing workshops — Words regained
A cycle of eight sessions led by a writer and a therapist, for survivors and their relatives. In Pacé and Rennes.
Training for professionals
Awareness sessions for social workers, lawyers and health professionals — understanding the after-effects of torture and welcoming people without re-traumatising them.
Calendar
Upcoming events
- Cinéma
Projection-débat Traversées
MJC de Pacé
- Atelier
Atelier d'écriture — la parole retrouvée
Rennes
- Rencontre
Table ronde · Les routes invisibles
Les Champs Libres, Rennes
- Événement
Remise du Prix annuel des Promesses d'Exil
Opéra de Rennes
Manifesto
We do not film destitution. We film the way survivors refuse to be reduced to it. For us, art is not a softening of reality: it is the place where a human being begins to speak of themselves again.