Born Under Z
Frédérique Pollet Rouyer
2010 - 75 min - HDCam - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - France, Belgique

50 years after his exile in France, Robert's past, as a mixed-race child from Indochina, caught up with him. He decides to go back in time to try to understand why he never knew his French father and the reasons he was separated from his Vietnamese mother.
As Robert searches for answers, the film sheds the light on an obscure episode in French colonialism, and which the Republic referred to then, as the handling of the mixed race problem.
A film about blood, national identity, the sheer weight of domination on all involved and the personal wounds of colonialism. Also a movie whom hero finally attain appeasement by facing the past.

Colonialisme | Droits de l'homme | Enfance | Exil | Famille | Femme | Histoire | Mémoire | Métissage | Portrait | France | Vietnam


Author-Director : Frédérique Pollet Rouyer
Photography : Jean Patric
Sound : Marianne Roussy, Claire-Anne Largeron
Editing : Catherine Zins, Urszula Lesiak, Frédérique Pollet Rouyer
Original Music : Dragan Urlic, Alain-Emmanuel Rousselon
Delegate Producer : Ina (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel)
Co-producer : Black Moon Production
Co-producer : Iota production
Broadcasting Co-producer : France 2
Broadcasting Pre-purchase : RTBF Bruxelles
Contribution : CNC. COSIP, Procirep, ACSE (Agence nationale pour la cohésion sociale et l'égalité des chances), Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique, Centre Images (région Centre)

Distribution


Distributor : Ina. DDA. Direction commerciale
VOD : Ina Boutique
Disponible au Club du doc

Distinctions

2011 - Visions du réel, Nyon (Suisse) : Compétition Internationale - Longs métrages