At Averroes & Rosa Parks
Southeast Asian Premiere
Nicolas Philibert France 2024 143 min PG13 (Some Coarse Language)
A moving, empathetic documentary on psychiatric care and the inner worlds of patients.
Averroès and Rosa Parks are two units in the Esquirol Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Paris where patients undergo holistic treatment and programmes geared towards social reintegration. Set in this institution, this documentary comprises almost entirely of carer–patient interviews that centre the patients’ voice. As they share their struggles, fears and hopes, diverse portraits of troubled individuals emerge.
The pared-down camerawork draws attention to articulations and expressions—we not only discern the sensitivity with which the patients relate to the world, but also their suffering and fragility. This is a deeply empathetic look into psychiatric care and the inner worlds of a stigmatised group, revealing much about the human soul and society.
1 Dec, Sun 7:00PM / 143 min
Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 2
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At Averroes & Rosa Parks
Averroès & Rosa Parks
Nicolas Philibert
France
2024
French
143 min
PG13 (Some Coarse Language)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Nicolas Philibert
French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert is known for his documentaries such as the award-winning To Be and To Have (2002), about a small rural school, and Nénette (2010), centred on a captive orangutan. Premiering at the Berlinale, At Averroes & Rosa Parks is the second film in a trilogy on psychiatric care, after On the Adamant (2023) which won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear.
Miléna Poylo,
Gilles Sacuto,
Céline Loiseau
