Festival Les Étoiles du Documentaire 2019

Editorial by Laëtitia Moreau, president of the Scam (excerpts)
“The Stars of the Scam are a little more desired each year. Desired by more and more directors to send their works to our jury composed only of authors. We received more than 450 applications this year!
Desired by production and distribution companies, who know that the Stars always distinguish demanding, singular, necessary works. Finally, the public wants films that reflect the exceptional diversity and quality of the works proposed today by television authors, from all types of television, because when there are great works, there are no small channels.
This common desire, these packed cinemas are the best guarantors of a shared requirement for television to remain a tool for freedom of creation and expression. »

The 2019 jury chaired by Mosco Lévi Boucault was composed of Jean-René Bouyer, Jill Coulon, Marion Gervais and Anne Poiret.

The 2019 Award
Âme qui vive by Éliane Raheb
Angkar* by Neary Adeline Hay
Blaise Cendrars, comme un roman by Jean-Michel Meurice
BNP Paribas, dans les eaux troubles de la première banque européenne by Xavier Harel et Thomas Lafarge
D’ici là* by Matthieu Dibelius
Djamilia by Aminatou Echard
En équilibre* by Antarès Bassis & Pascal Auffray
Les Enfants du 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe by Ruth Zylberman & François Prodromidès
En Política by Penda Houzangbe & Jean-Gabriel Tregoat
L’Esprit des lieux by Stéphane Manchematin & Serge Steyer
Étudiants, tous à l’usine ! Itinéraires de maoïstes ouvriers by Lise Baron & Timo Eberman
Fame by Giacomo Abbruzzese & Angelo Milano
Les Hommes du dictateur by Marjolaine Grappe
Inside Lehman Brothers by Jennifer Deschamps
Itinéraire d’un enfant placé by Ketty Rios Palma & Magali Bloch
Jean-Pierre Mocky, la loi de l’albatros by Charles Schnaebele & Virgile Tyrode
Je ne veux pas être paysan* by Tangui Le Cras & Anne Paschetta
Libye, anatomie d’un crime by Cécile Allegra & Céline Bardet
Manu, l’homme qui ne voulait pas lâcher sa caméra by Emmanuelle Bonmariage
N’en parle pas, c’est un secret by Fanny Fontan
Ni d’Ève, ni d’Adam, une histoire intersexe by Floriane Devigne
Norilsk, l’étreinte de glace* by François-Xavier Destors
Le Pays rémanent by Ugo Zanutto
La Russie dans l’objectif by Alexander Abaturov & Margaux Opinel
Samaritain by Julien Menanteau
Le Sentier by Hadrien Bertuit
Simone Veil, albums de famille by Hugues Nancy
La Vie de Mimi by Laure Pradal
Zona Franca* by Georgi Lazarevski
La Zone rouge by Tristan Thil

*These films were supported at the writing stage by the Scam’s Brouillon d’un rêve grant.