Il se passe des choses étranges dans l’appartement de Joe, situé tout en haut d’une barre d’immeubles de New Lodge, à Belfast… Car il s’est lancé dans la reconstitution de souvenirs de son enfance pendant les “Troubles”, conflit armé qui déchira l’Irlande du Nord des années 60 à 1998, et fit particulièrement des ravages dans ce petit quartier catholique. Jolene, Sean, Angie et d’autres voisins se joignent à lui pour revisiter leur mémoire collective, qui a façonné leur vie et leur quartier.
Réalisation : Alessandra Celesia – Production : Films de Force Majeure / Thank You & Good Night productions / Planet Korda / Dumbworld – Distribution France : Les Alchimistes / Ventes Internationales : The Party Film Sales
CPH:DOX JURY STATEMENT
“Our main award recognises not only creative and conceptual daring, but a filmmaker with the humility to realise when the story outgrows its framework, and the confidence to follow where it, and its fantastically vivid characters lead. We live in a world of divisions, borders and locked gates. Coming like a conversation shouted through one of those locked gates, our winning film is a collective portrait of several proud, funny, resourceful individuals, who would be willing to die for their community but who choose each day the harder, braver and more hopeful option of living for it instead. The Dox:Award goes to Alessandra Celesia for the witty, multi-layered, profound and provocative ‘The Flats’.
THE IRISH NEWS
« A powerful film »
THE GUARDIAN
« It’s a powerful, urgent and deeply sad film »
VARIETY
« A powerful, timely and haunting film about a community living in the shadow of the pain and trauma of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. »
CINEUROPA
« The Flats offers more than a story about a man’s restaged memories of the Troubles; ultimately, it evidences how memories keep arising, and so does life itself«
Diretor of Photography : Francois Chambe – Sound Engineer : Quentin Jacques – Editor : Frédéric Fichefet – Music Composer : Brian Irvine – Color Grading : Dave Hugues – AD : Fionnuala McCormack – AC : Conor Losty
Francois Chambe 