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The first edition of Lab Doc, Meditalents' documentary writing residency, took place in Marseille in 3 sessions of 5 days spread between October 2020 and April 2021.
The 1st session took place from October 5 to 8, 2020
The 2nd session took place from January 4 to 8, 2021
The 3rd session took place from April 5 to 9, 2021.
The Godfather of the first edition of Lab Doc was Jean Labib, Film Director and Producer.
" In a dream world, there would be as many scripts as there are documentaries. "
In the third episode, the alternation of sequences between past and present is enriched with evocative flashbacks: the end of the Lotta Continua student movement, the drama at the Angelo Azzurro bar, the detention and flight to France. Testimonies of the end of one chapter of life and the opening of another, revealed by the memories of the MovieClub, where Steve, a little less than young, matured his passion for cinema, to which he himself devoted and to which he still devotes his entire life. A new happening in Marseille: rappers, street artists, musicians... to discover the ideas and actions of the young people of 2020.
Every year, a circular migration program signed between Spain and Morocco sees the arrival of thousands of legal seasonal workers on Iberian soil. Saloua Amrani, a 43-year-old Moroccan widow, spends four months a year, far from her 5 children, 2 of whom are young, harvesting strawberries in Andalusia to meet the needs of her family. Bitter Strawberries offers an intimate vision of the female experience of seasonal work.
Mille Plateaux is a documentary road movie that follows my journey from the city of Oran to the heart of the Algerian highlands. This trip is an opportunity to take the pulse of a country in perpetual motion, to explore this territory, to meditate on it, to enter its folds or its margins. It is also the intimate story of the mourning of a mother lost and found on the confines of this space.
Lassana is 24 years old, with laughing eyes and scars on her body. He is from Guinea-Conakry and does not have the right to live and work legally in Marseille. However, he has been a construction worker for 6 years and is participating in the urban restructuring of this city. Behind closed doors, at home, the film follows Lassana's daily strategies and future prospects in this city in perpetual transformation.
Somewhere in the Hautes-Alpes, a shepherd and his flock of sheep climb a mountain. Soon the herd settles on the desert plateau of Bure, at the foot of the giant dishes of a radio astronomical observatory. In an atmosphere at the end of the world, and while the shepherd watches over his animals, the antennas extend towards the sky.
Since leaving Syria 8 years ago, Ahmad has run a small shop in the high mountains of northern Lebanon, in Bsharri, my village. This place has multiple facets. It turns out to be a point of gravity on the village square and proves to be a “crossroads” for the inhabitants, an enclosed place which nevertheless opens to the outside.
Solid Mike is the guy who rides mechanics. Marseillais, tall, sturdy, joker, macho. For a little over a year, Solid Mike has been a Youtuber. And like thousands of YouTubers, Solid Mike wants to create buzz. On the internet his fans are categorical: “Solid Mike, you are going to break through! ". For them, he is their rising star. But for me, Solid Mike is above all Mickaël, my high school friend…
Tidiane. Abdoulaye. Khalil. Aminata. Junior.
Aged 13 to 19, these five unaccompanied minors have crossed deserts and seas alone, without their family.
Now in Marseille and left to fend for themselves, these young migrants carry within them the burning hope of a new life.
The real journey is only just beginning.
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Jean-Robert Viallet is a film director and journalist. He was awarded the Albert Londres prize in 2010 for his trilogy La mise à mort du travail (The Death of Work), an immersion into the heart of large global corporations. His work focuses on the gray areas of power, the fractures of contemporary society and environmental issues. He has worked on the business of teenage reform camps in the USA (Les enfants perdus de Tranquility Bay), and international arms trafficking (Une femme à abattre). He has now turned his attention to the dangerous links between arms dealers and French political parties in a documentary series of six 52' episodes, about which the daily Le Monde writes: "As breathless, convoluted and humanly powerful as the best fiction series, Manipulation, une histoire française deserves to be revisited by watching all six episodes in succession, the better to savor its exhilarating and terrifying dramaturgy. After a film at the heart of France's bangs and those forgotten by the global economy (La France en face), he co-wrote with Alice Odiot a diptych about two families facing justice (Jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépare, Le mauvais œil ). He then produced a worldwide investigation into the commodification of higher education (Etudiants: L'avenir à crédit). In 2019, he will complete L'homme a mangé la terre, an all-archival fresco that tells a counter-history of progress. Des Hommes, his latest film co-directed with Alice Odiot, a feature-length documentary selected for ACID-CANNES 2019, was released in cinemas in February 2019.
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Victor Ede was editor (In Libris Editions), chief editor, then producer from 2015 at Cinephage productions, the company he founded with Jean-Robert Viallet. Trained at Eurodoc, he has produced seven films, including three international co-productions and one feature-length film, and is developing a line of documentaries with a strong international focus. Victor Ede is a reader and deputy member of the CNC's FAI commission, and an additional member of the PROCIREP ANGOA commission. Member of the Eurodoc network, DAE, president of the SUDPACA producers association (LPA).
Filmography (producer):
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She has been making films for over 25 years, collaborating with directors from France, Switzerland, the USA, Colombia, Mexico, India, Israel, Serbia, ...
In addition to editing, she works as an editing and scriptwriting consultant, notably for Rough Cut Service, Doc Montevideo, Circle, Visions du Réel, Dok Incubator, Ex Oriente, Doc Aviv, and Doc Point. She worked as an editing lecturer at HEAD/ Cinéma du Réel in Geneva from 2008 to 2018. She was recently invited to be a member of the Academy of the Oscars in the field of documentary. Her most recent works include: Dans tes yeux je vois mon pays by Kamal Hachkar 2019, Radio Silence by Juliana Fanjul 2019, Advocate by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche 2019, D'Angelo-The chosen one by Carine Bjilsma 2019, The Edge of Democracy by Petra Costa 2019 (consultant Montage et Scénario), One more Jump by Manu Gerosa 2019 (editing supervisor), Rétrospective by Jérôme Bel 2019, Soeurs Jarariju by Jorge Cadena 2018, Las fantasmas del Caribe by Felipe Monroy 2018, Disappearances by Anat Even 2016, Machines by Rahul Jain 2016, The wonderful kingdom of Papa Alaev by Noam Pinchas and Tal Barda 2015, Muchachas by Juliana Fanjul 2014, Jugando con los pajaros by Simona Canonica 2014. From 1995 to 1999, she worked as editing supervisor for various feature films in the USA, including Lisbon story by Wim Wenders, Girlfight by Karin Kusama, Hamlet by Michael Almereyda... She has directed two feature-length documentaries: Not for Sale, 2003; The Rabbi's 12 children, 2007; as well as various shorter formats for television.
