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The Saint-Barth Film Festival continues on Thursday May1 with the screening of two films.
At 3pm, at the Théâtre du Paradis in Gustavia: "Cyrille Régis: itinéraire d'une légende" by Jérémie Magar, in the presence of producer Barcha Bauer (2023, France, Documentary, 53').
On January 15, 2018, England woke up to the news that Cyrille Régis had died: the whole country was in mourning. A member of the "Three Degrees" at West Bromwich Albion and English champion in 1987 with Coventry City F.C, this top striker marked an entire generation with his style of play and as a black pioneer of English soccer, the first bulwark against racism. Cyrille was born into a family of orpailleurs who had immigrated from Saint Lucia to the Maripasoula region of French Guiana, and remained in touch with his family and roots throughout his life. However, his two children Robert and Michelle have never visited French Guiana. Living in England and the United States, they will discover for the first time a part of their identity and reconnect with their father, who disappeared without ever having had the opportunity to show them his homeland.
At 8pm, on the set of Ajoe in Lorient: "Magma" by Cyprien Vial, with Dimitry Zandronis (2023, France, 1h25)
Katia Reiter has been head of the Observatoire Volcanologique de Guadeloupe for ten years. She forms a dynamic duo with Aimé, a young Guadeloupean to whom she shares her passion for the job. As she prepares for a new mission on the other side of the world, the threat of a major eruption of La Soufrière looms. The island is on the brink of collapse, and Katia must ensure the safety of the population...
In this film, which distances itself from traditional "volcano" films, director Cyprien Vial wanted to evoke a more muted crisis: "It interested me that the magma should remain invisible and that the volcano should not be treated as a villain, but as a complex living being capable of awakening and revealing the island's problems without exploding".
