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BIGGER THAN US - The Film - Flore Vasseur

BIGGER THAN US - The Film - Flore Vasseur

Source: BIGGER THAN US - The Film

Cannes Film Festival Official Selection

Shot in Malawi, Lebanon, Brazil, USA, Greece, Indonesia and Uganda, BIGGER THAN US is a feature documentary about a generation fighting for human rights, climate, freedom of expression, social justice, access to education or food. Dignity. From Rio to Jakarta, Melati, Rene, Memory, Winnie, Xiuhtezcatl, Mohamad and Mary rise up and carry a magical humanity, that of courage and joy, of commitment to something greater than oneself. Aged between 18 and 25, they tell us how to live. And what it means to be in the world. BIGGER THAN US is produced by Denis Carot with Elzevir Films and Flore Vasseur with Big Mother Productions and co-produced by Marion Cotillard with All you need is prod. French release: 22 September More info on : www.biggerthanus.film

SYNOPSIS

For six years, Melati, 18, has been fighting the plastic pollution that is ravaging her country, Indonesia. Like her, a generation is rising up to fix the world. Everywhere, teenagers and young adults are fighting for human rights, the climate, freedom of expression, social justice, access to education or food. Dignity. Alone against all odds, sometimes risking their lives and safety, they protect, denounce and care for others. The earth. And they change everything. Melati goes to meet them across the globe. She wants to understand how to hold on and continue her action. From the favelas of Rio to the remote villages of Malawi, from makeshift boats off the island of Lesbos to Native American ceremonies in the mountains of Colorado, Rene, Mary, Xiu, Memory, Mohamad and Winnie reveal a magnificent world of courage and joy, of commitment to something bigger than oneself. At a time when everything seems to be or has been falling apart, these young people show us how to live. And what it means to be in the world today.

THE FILM

To meet young people who are rising up to "repair the world": boys and girls barely twenty years old - yesterday still children - but who, as if seized by a sense of urgency and injustice, are launching themselves into battles that are bigger than themselves! This is the purpose of writer Flore Vasseur's first feature-length documentary film.
BIGGER THAN US is a film about youth. About its lucidity, its refusal to see our world go downhill. It is also a film about the fragility and beauty of life on this planet, our common good, where the joy and art of doing things together, of fighting together, can still prevail.
It is a film about freedom, in spite of everything, and the choice to act that each and every one of us can still take. BIGGER THAN US is also a sensitive photograph of young people on the move, and their struggles around issues such as social justice, the climate emergency, women's rights or access to food and education.
It is a journey that resembles an odyssey, in seven filmed epics - Lebanon, Malawi, Greece, the United States, Brazil, Uganda and Indonesia. In each of these countries, each of these social and cultural realities, Melati Wijsen - the eighteen-year-old activist who initiated the ban on plastic bags on her island of Bali, whose story Flore Vasseur had told in a previous documentary for ARTE - goes to meet young everyday fighters whose commitment can only galvanize us.
The result is a very touching peer-to-peer dialogue on the commitments of their generation, its courage and its desire to live.

A FILM AND AN INVITATION TO TAKE ACTION!

RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION:
A number of productions (dataviz, educational kits, etc.) have been created around the film by various professionals. They are freely available to all.
https://biggerthanus.film/les-ressources-education

TAKE ACTION AND BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOU
There are 1001 ways to take part in this adventure, to make your messages known, to act around you to "fix the world".
https://biggerthanus.film/agir

OUR VIDEOS "IT STARTS WITH YOU"
Making a commitment, answering some kind of call is something big, difficult, daunting, lonely or exciting. Sometimes at the same time. Here is a series of 8 videos to help you understand the power of commitment.
https://biggerthanus.film/ca-commence-avec-toi

PROJECTIONS: BIGGER THAN US

Here are the public screenings of BIGGER THAN US in the coming days with links to register.
To organise your screening: community@biggerthanus.film
The full programme: https: //lnkd.in/gHX86vqj

07/05 - 16h - Niort - Cinema Moulin du Roc - with Flore and Amnesty International France

12/05 - 9h30 - Toulouse - CJD National Congress - with Flore, Frédéric Bosqué and Camille Etienne

15/05 - 18h - Sète - Festival Cinétoiles, with Attac France

MELATI AND MEMORY COME TO EUROPE !!!!

19/05 - 19h - Paris - with Melati Wijsen, Memory Banda and Flore at "Impact2" organised by INCO: https: //lnkd.in/efCNTb7d...

20/05 - Party - Paris - ChangeNOW - with Melati Wijsen, Memory Banda and Flore

21/05 - Paris - ChangeNOW with Melati Wijsen and de Memory Banda

21/05 - Uzès - Festival Au-delà des Ecrans - with the MAISON DES ADOLESCENTS DU GARD: https://lnkd.in/eYf3-fGJ

+Projects supported:
Crous Lyon, Crous de Créteil, Sciences Po Environnement - Dijon, ESCP Business School, MediaSchool Rennes, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, HEC Alumni, KEDGE Business School, Université Paris-Saclay, Collège Paul Bert à Chatou, Lycée des Sept Mares-Maurepas

Infos : https://lnkd.in/gHX86vqj
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