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Boat People
Show · Thursday, November 19 · 20:00 · Marseille 3e Arrondissement
Friche Belle de Mai, 41 Rue Jobin
1979, near Niort, a French family hosts a Vietnamese family fleeing authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia. Between the hosts' motivations and the unspoken pains of the newcomers, we (re)discover the large solidarity movement that organized itself in France at that time. A movement as imperative as it is complex. Marine Bachelot Nguyen turns theater into a territory of memory and resistance. On the border between documentary and fiction, her work questions postcolonial legacies. To nourish her narrative, she collected the voices of the elder…
