Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder is a French-Swiss director and producer born in Tehran in 1941. While studying philosophy at the Sorbonne, he began his career at Cahiers du cinéma in 1958. Jean-Luc Godard hired him as an assistant on the shooting of his film The Carabineers. In 1962, he created the company Les Films du losange intended to produce the works of young filmmakers who surround him, including Eric Rohmer. In 1969, he began to direct fiction and documentaries. In the 1970s, he directed landmark documentaries such as General Idi Amin Dada: Self-portrait and Koko : A Talking Gorilla. He then went to the United States, where he and Charles Bukowski wrote the screenplay for Barfly, released in 1987. His next film, Reversal of Fortune, earned him an Oscar nomination for best director. Fascinated by ambiguous characters, he directed Terror's Advocate, a documentary on the lawyer Jacques Vergès, which won a César award in 2008. In 2017, he concluded his trilogy on evil with The Venerable W.
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The Venerable W.
In Burma, Ashin Wirathu is a very influential Buddhist monk. To meet him is to find oneself at the heart of daily racism and to observe how the Islamophobic and hateful discourse that he preaches is transformed into violence and destruction. Yet we are in a country where 90% of the population practices Buddhism, a religion based on a peaceful, tolerant and non-violent way of life.
The Venerable W.
In Burma, Ashin Wirathu is a very influential Buddhist monk. To meet him is to find oneself at the heart of daily racism and to observe how the Islamophobic and hateful discourse that he preaches is transformed into violence and destruction. Yet we are in a country where 90% of the population practices Buddhism, a religion based on a peaceful, tolerant and non-violent way of life.
