72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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12 jours / 12 Days

Raymond Depardon
France      88 m.
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Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. By law, the hospital has 12 days to bring each patient before a judge. Based on medical records and a doctor's recommendations, a crucial decision has to be made - will the patient stay or leave? 12 days after which lives can change forever. Granted access to these hearings for the first time, celebrated filmmaker/photographer Raymond Depardon captures these extraordinary encounters between justice and psychiatry. Astonishing, enlightening - a film that gives a voice to those who have previously been voiceless.

Director
Raymond Depardon
Screenplay
(Documentary)
Production
Palmeraie et Désert (France)
Claudine Nougaret
Photography
Raymond Depardon
Edition
Simon Jacquet
Music
Alexandre Desplat
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
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Wild Bunch
65, rue de Dunkerque
75009
Paris
France
Running Time
88 m.
Country
France
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