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a film by Roland Muller, 53 minutesThe adventure of the inhabitants of Saverne, a small town in northern Alsace, for two months in the summer of 1987. They put on a major theatrical show.

An actor, Raymond Roumegous, creates with two hundred inhabitants and a few professionals a popular spectacle exceeding the ambitions and the scale of the traditional spectacles.

Who are these inhabitants risking themselves in this adventure, and how do they live it? What does this represent in their daily and family life? Singular portraits that intertwine; the mechanisms of setting up creation, filmed from the inside by an omnipresent observer.

technical data:

duration	53 minutes
camera	Roland Muller
sound	Roland Muller
editing	Daniel Coche
with	the inhabitants of Saverne
production	dora films
support	Ville de Saverne, Atelier Audiovisuel Strasbourg
distribution	dora films

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Vote for Dreams

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a film by Damien Fritsch, 53'“I see neither forms nor light, nothing, absolutely nothing. But I’m not in the dark, I see nothing“, says Jean-Michel, who is blind from birth, like the other characters in the film.

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a film by Eric Galmard, 67'Khem looks into her father's history, Khun Srun, a Cambodian writer who joined the ranks of the Khmer Rouge in 1973 and was executed by them in 1978.

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a film by Frederic Goldbronn 60'On the morning of 18 March 1942, after a long train journey through occupied France, the young Roland Barthes arrived at the student sanatorium at Saint Hilaire in the Alps.

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