Julien Elie
Julien Elie was born in the early 1970s in Montreal. After staying in Rwanda in 1997, he directed The One Who Knew Too Much, a film investigating political crimes in the region. At the end of the 90s, he maintained a correspondence with Farley C. Matchett, a man sentenced to death, and directed in 2002 The last meal, a plunge into the heart of Huntsville, Texas, capital of the death penalty in the United States. He then stayed in Mexico, where he directed Dark Suns (2018), an investigation into the countless murders and cases of disappearances in Mexico, from the late 1960s to today. The White Guard (2023) is his third feature-length film.
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The White Guard
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The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country,...
Dark Suns
Twenty years ago, subdued cries of young women, victims of a senseless misogynist frenzy, echoed in northern Mexico. Two thousand kilometers further south, under the volcanoes surrounding the capital, hundreds of others have been murdered in recent years. The silence of the authorities and the general situation of impunity encourages all kinds of abuses. Fear invades the countryside and the cit...
The White Guard
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The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country,...
Dark Suns
Twenty years ago, subdued cries of young women, victims of a senseless misogynist frenzy, echoed in northern Mexico. Two thousand kilometers further south, under the volcanoes surrounding the capital, hundreds of others have been murdered in recent years. The silence of the authorities and the general situation of impunity encourages all kinds of abuses. Fear invades the countryside and the cit...
