Original title: Auber 89
Print source:
Lightdox
Motivation: “The FIPRESCI Jury is honouring a film that achieves the remarkable feat of being both intellectually complex and widely accessible. It tells deeply human stories while simultaneously engaging with political issues that could hardly be more relevant today.
Through an outstanding piece of archival research, the film reconstructs the contradictions of capitalist modernity: progress and decay, migration and isolation, exploitation and emancipation. The story unfolds through the eyes of an eloquent and empathetic protagonist”.