FILM SCREENING 'La Combattante' (Mary Jo Will See You at 4)

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Directed by Camille Ponsin, 2020, 1h34

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Please note that this film contains some footage which some people may find distressing, including images of violent events, in which weapons, violence or injured and dead victims are visible.

 

This event is free and open to everyone, but online booking is required.
To access the screening, please register here.

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Somewhere in Paris, a discrete old lady awaits a visit. She used to be an ethnologist, specialising in the region of Darfur. The visitors she now receives daily do not come to see her just for tea. What they are looking for is the crucial help that only this 90-year-old woman can give them. All of them are survivors of the genocide that has struck the populations of Darfur since 2003...