Synopsis

“Well described, well filmed, a landscape could reveal the structures of oppression of which he was the fruit,” claims the Japanese avant-garde filmmaker’s Masao Adachi’s “landscape theory”. In his film-essay, Éric Baudelaire examines suspended landscape between his status as a silent enigma and a possible story of Aziz: His birth in the Parisian suburb, his school years, his work, then departure to Egypt, Turkey, and the road to Aleppo where he joined the ranks of Nusra Front. A judiciary chronicle progressively becomes a slow-paced thriller where the viewer, faced with the incomprehensible, accepts feeling troubled, intuitively knowing – the incomprehensible must have its own reasons.

Festivals:
FID Marseille, 2017
Festival dei Popoli, 2017 – Best Feature Film
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, 2017
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, 2018
IBAFF International Film Festival, 2018 – Best Feature Film
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, 2018
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2018

Language: French
Subtitles: Lithuanian, English