Nicolas Philibert
France, Japan | 2023 | 109 min
Language : French
Subtitle : English
Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival 2023. With his characteristic precision and benevolence, Nicolas Philibert - a major figure in documentary filmmaking - sets out to meet patients and carers who, on a daily basis, invent their lives in a unique place: the Adamant is an association housed on a barge in the middle of Paris, which takes in adults suffering from mental disorders.
With his characteristic precision and benevolence, Nicolas Philibert - a major figure in documentary filmmaking and a close friend of Visions du Réel - sets out to meet patients and carers who, on a daily basis, invent their lives in a unique place: the Adamant is an association housed on a barge in the middle of Paris, which takes in adults suffering from mental disorders and offers them a environment of care that helps them to reconnect with the world. The filmmaker films, looks, but above all listens, with humanity, tenderness and patience. He observes the workshops - music, reading, cinema, writing and even jam making - the meals, the meetings, and shares moments of one-to-one conversation. “As we all know, the craziest people are not the ones we think” - the filmmaker’s words on the stage of the Berlinale upon winning the 2023 Golden Bear will resonate for a long time to come, as will the moving cover of Téléphone that opens the film and will forever remain etched in our memories.
Emilie Bujès
De chaque instant, 2018
