Synopsis

A stage, a ron! Poets follow one after the other. The Creole language snaps, their feet vibrate on the ground. If poetry had this strange power to help heal the wounds of history, if it was a way of being in the world, then on Réunion Island, it would be called fonnkèr (fond'cœur / depths of heart).

Credits

Executive Producers: Jonathan Rubin & François Magal
Co-producer: Jil Servant
Director & Screenplay: Sophie Louÿs
Cinematography: Raphaël O’Byrne
Sound: Alain Rosenfeld
Editing: Jean-Michel Perez
Sound Editing: Julien Verstraete
Music: Jako Maron
Sound Mixing: Jérémy Morelle
In co-production with Les Films du Haut d’un Arbre and Palaviré Productions
With the support of LaScam, Région Réunion, the French National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), France Télévisions, the Ministry for Overseas France, and Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts

Awards

Brouillon d’un Rêve Grant – LaScam
Best Short Documentary Award – Africlap Festival
Special Cauris Award (Best Film from the Diaspora) – Africlap Festival

Festivals

Amiens International Film Festival – France
États Généraux du Film Documentaire – Lussas, France
International Island Film Festival – Groix, France
Granville Poetry Jousts – Granville, France
Opéra National de Lyon – Lyon, France
Printemps des Poètes – Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center – New York, United States
La Fête du Court Métrage – Saint-Denis, Réunion
Women's Film Festival – Saint-André, Réunion
Rencontres du Film Court de Madagascar – Antananarivo, Madagascar
Étonnants Voyageurs – International Book and Film Festival – Saint-Malo, France
Rhizomes Festival – Calenzana, Corsica
Creole Cultures Gathering – Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Africlap – African Cinema Festival of Toulouse – France
Social and Committed Cinema Festival – Clermont-Ferrand, France

TV/VOD Broadcasts

France Télévisions
Tënk
OI-FILM