24 OCT, 14:00 · Astra Film Cinema
The screening is followed by a 15-minute Q&A with the filmmakers or special guests. It is a chance to discover the story behind the film and discuss its themes directly.
Guests:
Olivier Ballande
CHILD TRAFFICKING
Olivier Ballande / France / 0 / 57 min
A team of French investigators tracks a criminal network from Iași that exploits minors involved in pickpocketing in central Paris. An investigation into a system where children are turned into tools of organized crime.
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About the film
After hundreds of pickpocketing cases in the Paris metro, France’s Juvenile Protection Brigade attempts to dismantle a criminal network with European connections. Through surveillance, interrogations and cooperation with Romanian authorities, investigators trace the organization back to Iași, uncovering a system based on the exploitation, control and vulnerability of several families. Beyond the investigation, the film reveals the limits of justice when confronted with a reality in which children are both victims of exploitation and participants in a criminal network.
ProducerJuliette Guigon, Patrick Winocour
EditorDimitri Bonnet
SoundRomaric Pivant
CinematographyJean-François Tuso
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