
011 // Sons of Barents
David Kremer
// France // 2015
// 75 min // Couleur // HD
Barents Sea. Arctic Circle. The endless days of summer pass. Thirty men board the Grand Hermine, the last French trawler equipped for the deep-sea fishing. They work tirelessly, facing the sea, on their own. They purchase fish shoals, on a relentless course, every fishing season. What brings these men back to this risky life? How do they make it through, together?
// Director’s statement
Despite the harshness of this world, once these sailors set foot on such trawler, they spend their entire life abroad. The thin thread that suspends these men to their desire to return to the sea, to sail once more, despite the storms and factory hell, must be fragile. But there is undoubtedly a real desire.
These men represent a tangible link between a form of life and a certain form of death as they force order and chaos, toughness and anarchy, boredom and repeated astonishment to cohabit.
Filming such an extraordinary tension and making it perceptible is my reason for sailing away again. Further. Longer.
// Director
David studied sound engineering in Brest after spending his childhood in Nantes and Chambéry. He was also interested in shooting images and took advantage of being in Brittany to experiment what would later become his passion and his professional occupation. He then left Brest and joined the image department of the FEMIS. Making a living as a director of photography, he kept experimenting shooting out at sea. This is to be seen (LOURD) in his movies "Coups de filet" in 2007, "L'étoile du matin” (Morning star) in 2013 and in his first long documentary film "Seuls, ensemble » (Sons of Barents). In 2013, he was in charge of lighting on his first feature film and, for once without his camera, went on learning about the sea. He directed Sons of Barents in 2015.
In coproduction with Takami Productions and TVR, TÉBÉO, TÉBÉSUD
With the support of Région Bretagne, CNC, PROCIREP-ANGOA
Special Jury award at Nancy-Lorraine International Festival
First Film award Traces de vie
Selection
In competition at FIFE 2015 (International Environmental Film Festival)/Paris
Vision du Réel/Crossing Europe Linz/Etonnants Voyageurs Saint-Malo/Doc en mai Bordeaux/Golden Apricot Yerevan Arménie/Festival of Douarnenez/ Jean Rouch
Festival / Rencontres de cinéma de Manosque /
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Les séances-rencontres prévues avec lui :
- Mercredi 16 nov 16h30, au Grand Action (Paris 5), animée par Clément Rauger des Cahiers du Cinéma, en partenariat avec l'Institut Culturel Italien à Paris
- Mercredi 16 nov 20h15, au Grand Action (Paris 5), animée par l'équipe du festival Italie Nouvelle
- Jeudi 17 nov 20h30, au Mk2 Bibliothèque (Paris 13), animée par Paolo Modugno,
enseignant de civilisation italienne à Sciences Po et responsable du cycle L'Italie à travers son cinéma
- Vendredi 18 nov 20h15, au Ciné 104 (Pantin), précédée d'un pot à 19h30
- Samedi 19 nov 17h, au cinéma Les Carmes (Orléans)
- Dimanche 20 nov 11h, au Majestic Bastille (Paris 11), dans le cadre L'Ecran des droits, avec Matthieu Quinquis, avocat pénaliste, président de l’Observatoire International des Prisons/Section Française
- Mardi 22 nov 20h, au cinéma Le Belmondo (Nice)
- Mercredi 23 nov 20h, au Cinéma L'Astrée (Chambéry)