Jungle Light
France2016fiction18'Konkurs krótkometrażowy (2017)
“The Jungle”, a camp for illegal immigrants near Calais, known very well from the media reports, becomes a setting for the film combining two different genres, which is closer to a documentary than a feature film. The thread bringing together various stories of refugees and volunteers is a lighter. The unassuming object travels through the camp and observes, eavesdrops and allows us to do the same. The strength of this project is the insights it provides, which a journalist who pops into the camp just for a moment, with a camera, searching for a catchy story to hit the headlines, is unable to do.
- directed by
- Thibault Jacquin
Born in 1991. Self-taught filmmaker, who learnt how to make documentaries during his stay in Vietnam, where he made films and was socially and politically involved in the “La Javatarte” collective. In 2016, he went to a refugee camp in Calais to provide help as a teacher of French. The film "Jungle Light" is based on his experiences in the camp.
- cinematography
- Mahmoud Afify
- script
- Thibault Jacquin
- music
- Sage Dean, Hassen El Golli
- sound
- Hassen El Golli
- editing
- Luca Miller
- production
- Guillem Ventura, Alex Guimera (Hic&NuncFilmWorks), Thibault Jacquin (La Javatarte)
- Photo
