Like the tumultuous return of the waves upon themselves when they break against an obstacle, there is a place marked by the surf: the Rivesaltes camp - first a gathering center, then internment for different populations between 1939 and 2007. Born from a feeling combining fear and fascination, the film questions the work of memory, it shows how the change in the landscape of the Rivesaltes camp is causing, today, a modification of the surrounding speech. and questions the present.

A film by Anne-Laure DE FRANSSU

France, 2019, documentary, 2h14 minutes, History / Society

starring Chiara Mulas & Serge Pey (Voice over & Text : "La barque de Pierre")

"le Ressac" BA - un film d'Anne-Laure de Franssu from FILMS on Vimeo.

Original Title / Titre original : "Le ressac"
Working Title / Titre de travail : "Rivesaltes, le ressac"
Duration/Durée : 134 minutes
Year/ Année : 2019
Country/Pays : France
Language: French
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Catalan

Tags: Camp Joffre (known as Camp de Rivesaltes), internment, relegation, 1930, 1960, Pyrénées Orientales, monument, 2015, building, duty of memory

NOTE BY THE DIRECTOR
"Facing the devastated immensity of the Rivesaltes camp, I am struck by the silence. At the heart of islet F, the sounds of mechanical shovels emerge: a Memorial is being built. The surf shows how the transformation of this landscape generates the birth of a word."

PRODUCER: Anne-Laure de Franssu

DIRECTOR: Anne-Laure de Franssu
SCREENPLAY: Anne-Laure de Franssu
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anne-Laure de Franssu
SOUND: Anne-Laure de Franssu, Philippe Bouychou
Pre-EDITING: Matilde Grosjean, Anne-Laure de Franssu
EDITING: Anne-Laure de Franssu
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Marc Chalosse
TEXT - VOICE-OVER: Chiara Mulas & Serge Pey "La barque de Pierre" (Richard Meier - VOIXéditions)
Production managers: Philippe Bouychou and Eric Jarno
Color grading: Arnaud Rizon
Sound mixing: Sylvain Philippon
Translations: Núria Molines Galarza - Jennifer Tennant - Éric Reyes Roher
Graphics: Claudia Comelade

PRODUCTION:
- II mots en Images
- Pays des Miroirs
- Tell Me Films
- Vidéka
- Corto Pacific
- viàOccitanie

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
CNC, Sacem, Région Normandie, Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditérannée, Procirep, Fondation Banque Populaire, Leader - Pays de la Vallée de l'Agly, Département des Pyrénées-Orientales, Scam - Brouillon d'un rêve

DISTRIBUTION:
II mots en Images

BROADCAST:
* Saturday 20 February, at 9PM00, on viàOccitanie (➡️ Channel 30 through Box - Channel 31 or 33 through TNT)
* TV Sud