Laurine Estrade
Directing
Biography
Born in Quimper in 1985, Laurine Estrade studied cinema in Rennes and completed her university studies in Paris, obtaining a professional Master's degree in cinema at La Sorbonne in 2008. Laurine works as a scriptwriter on documentary and fiction projects. In 2013, Laurine directed L'Enfant dans l'arbre, a behind-the-scenes documentary set in a Perpignan school, produced by Triptyque Films and France Télévisions. It was during this shoot that she met Ossana, who became the main character in her second documentary: Ossana, la vie devant toi, produced by Les Films d'Ici and France Télévisions.
Known For
After the fall of Assad’s regime, five survivors return to the former torture prison of Saidnaya to reenact what they experienced there during their incarceration. They reclaim their voices and bear witness for those who can no longer speak for themselves.
The Other Side of the Sun
In Leon Blum primary school, nearly all the children come from the Gypsy community, which lives nearby.
L'enfant dans l'arbre
Everywhere where human and non-human lives met, the reality needed to become the subject of never-ending negotiations. The vectors of interests pointed to very different directions. With an anthropological insight, French documentarians capture the reconstruction of events from almost half a million years ago being acted out over a river near Tautavel.
Here Lions Once Roared
"Les dragons n’existent pas is a call to the dead in a stricken land, the Ardennes. The dead are not those of the last war, but the factories that have closed down one after the other: Cellatex, the Thomé-Génot foundries, Sopal Gascogne. All fallen foul of the game of musical chairs played by international financial capitalism. Stories of strikes, machine-tool auctions, angry words, lists of grievances and industrial ruins punctuate this funeral oration, where the worker, the source of all of capitalism’s value-added, refuses to be buried in the obscurity of the Ardennes forest, the fate that befell the Roman sanctuaries in the Medieval forest." (Yann Lardeau)