“The Prison Show” by Gabriella Kessler – 2024
The Prison Show immerses us in the world of a volunteer radio show in Texas — unique of its kind, entirely dedicated to inmates in Texas prisons and their loved ones. Beyond a simple glimpse into a local radio station, director Gabriella Kessler offers a window onto a deeply repressive prison system, while revealing the people who, through entirely voluntary means, strive to bring a little light into the darkness.
“FILantropio” by Charlène Petit
The benefits of art for mental health: WHO Study, 2019.
“Who Shines in Battle” by Joséphine Japy and Olivier Torres
“Who Shines in Battle” is the etymological meaning of the name Bertille — the younger of two sisters in the Roussier family, who has a severe disability with an uncertain diagnosis. The family lives in a fragile balance around this child, who absorbs everyone’s efforts and thoughts, and who could lose her life at any moment. Each member of the family builds their life and copes as best they can with the demands of this rhythm and the uncertainties it brings. The parents, Madeleine and Gilles, and the older sister, Marion. What is daily life like, and what futures lie ahead, for a mother, a father, a couple, and a teenager whose responsibility for her younger sister has forced her to grow up too fast? When a new diagnosis is made, the cards are reshuffled and a new horizon emerges…