The Battle of La Plaine

La Plaine, a lively neighbourhood, a large square, a historic popular market. A tumultuous battle between, on the one hand, the town planning department of the city council, determined to carry out a major programme to “reconsider” the neighbourhood. On the other hand, some of the inhabitants, who reject  this gentrification operation and demand to be associated with the decisions. This epic story lasted three years and ended abruptly with the unbelievable  construction of a concrete wall 2.5 m high around the square. Neighbourhood television, a tool of counter-propaganda throughout this battle, marked by the stories of past uprisings, has refused to stop at the report of a defeat and asks : Can the cinema narrate what we are sure we have experienced and which does not appear in the winners’ narrative? How can we create enthusiastic political imaginations for tomorrow, on which others can build? Invoking the Free Communes of 1871 in France, with their joyful, fiery rage, a singular writing style takes hold of the fiction. To make this collective struggle a victorious human adventure,  another way of making the city and the world is envisaged.