Leurs chants parmi les cendres

Aneth Depoutot, Laurène Depoutot

France / 2024 / Fiction / 58’51”N2500709

Leurs chants parmi les cendres
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SYNOPSIS

"Carole Roussopoulos says, "I wake up in the morning and say to myself, this has got to stop. A group of young womxn live on the ruins of a Benedictine convent for women in Val-et-Châtillon, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Two friends, Souleina and Zaïre, who communicate without words, meet the group. The habitant⸱es and their specters inhabit a house, organizing around collective activities lulled by queer and feminist utopias. From the aftermath of this encounter, there will be voice, lots of voice, to the point of grating on the ears. There will also be two bodies dancing in desire, moments of life, and then, without warning, a disappearance. And the voices return, but this time closer, more personal, more singular. The directors, whose grandmothers have lived in this village for centuries, have combined their two approaches, theater and cinema, letting the experience of a shoot and its improvisations shine through throughout the film, with the camera itself sometimes becoming a character. Their Songs Among the Ashes is a film that's not afraid to be talkative, about youth, utopian desires, discomfort in groups, solitude, and friendship that heals.

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