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Toujours là, toujours Emerillon (Confluences - Emerillon of French Guiana)
Film
Title of the film
Original title:
Toujours là, toujours Emerillon
English title:
Confluences - Emerillon of French Guiana
Hungarian title:
Folyók mentén - Francia-guianai emerillonok
Production and shooting info
Country of the production:
France - fr
Year of production:
from 1999 to 2007
Year of shooting:
from 1999 to 2001
Length of the film:
86 min
Colouring:
colour
Standard format:
DVCAM
Recording format:
DV
Original language:
French
Emerillon
Language of subtitle:
English
French
Description of the content
Like forceful omens, scientific reports have hitherto depicted the Amerindian Emerillon of French Guiana as cultureless and doomed to disappear. With this film, a Danish anthropologist proposes to defy these negative images of the Emerillon, by the same token delving into their world. Several young Emerillon take up the challenge, and through their resourceful and often stumbling efforts to maintain a life in the forest while profiting from their status as French citizens, they present another version of what being Emerillon is all about. We follow them through communal fishing trips, forest foraging, artistic creativity, French schooling and municipal elections, discovering how they, always with humour, manage to bridge the gaps and make their lives whole. A rare, profoundly generous and non-ethnocentric discourse emerges, one that asserts that; to feel Emerillon does not necessarily imply feeling fundamentally different from others.
Credits
Made by:
Perle Mohl
Editor:
Vincent Blanchet
Company / Institution
Production:
Studios de la Vanne
Distributor:
Studios de la Vanne
Ethnicity and locality
Etnic group:
Emerillon
Continent:
South America
Country:
French Guiana - gf
Tipology
Type:
non-fiction film
Form:
documentary film
Related sciences
Keyword:
disadvantage
young people
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