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Here is a new collection of episodes offering you an immersion in cinema that addresses in depth the history in the broad sense, the significant memories, the transmission and the memory. These episodes focus on the analysis of films inspired by real events and documentaries, allowing to better understand how the seventh art captures and interprets these fundamental aspects of the human experience.
We will dissect the making of films that have drawn on historical events to create powerful narratives, while examining how documentaries have served to convey authentic and sometimes overlooked stories. This cinematic exploration will allow us to grasp how cinema acts as a witness and guardian of collective memories, promising rich reflections on how filmmakers have brought these essential subjects to life through visual and narrative art.
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Josep,
an animated film by Aurel
In this episode, let's discover 'Josep' , a French, Belgian and Spanish animated film directed by Aurel, released in 2020.
Aurel, a French cartoonist in his first attempt at film, reveals a moving story retracing the little-known journey of Catalan artist Josep Bartoli. Through this work, the director intensely highlights the unbearable reality of the concentration camps that were rampant in France even before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Aurel uses animation to enable an artistic and emotionally powerful vision of this dark period in European history, revealing the horrors and challenges that Bartoli and countless others faced.
Through the biography of the Catalan cartoonist Josep Bartoli, Aurel evokes in a moving and perfectly accurate way the tragic episode of the Retirada, the exodus to France of 450,000 Spanish Republicans fleeing the Franco regime in 1939.
This animated feature film, full of emotion and striking singularity, thus becomes a true act of remembrance, while celebrating the narrative and artistic power of graphic art.
'Josep' transcends the simple confines of a cinematic narrative to become a work that is both emotional and didactic, sensitively capturing a historical period often overlooked by French-speaking audiences. It pays tribute to the ability of visual art to not only document the events of the past, but also to embody memories and give voice to those who lived through these harrowing moments in human history.