French from Afar
- Catégorie
- Documentary
Directed by Jackie Bastide Produced by Temps noir
Broadcasters: Canal + International (Overseas), France Télévisions, Planète Support: Région Ile-de-France, ACSE, EU Media Plus Program, Procirep Angoa, CNC
60’ – 2010
Festival selections: FIGRA
Festival du film insulaire
Les Escales documentaires de La Rochelle
Les Ecrans documentaires
There are deportation campaigns so subtle that it never occurs to anyone to call them by their true name. The massive transfer of more than 70,000 people from the French-colonized islands to mainland France, organized by the BUMIDOM (Bureau of Migrations for Overseas Departments) between 1963 and 1981, was certainly one such case. This subtle and silent humiliation echoes an even more muffled and far-reaching battle that continues to brew both in mainland France and throughout the entire overseas French archipelago.