Black Blanc Beur

A Film by Matthieu Ponchel / Prïncia Car, France, 2019

About the film
About the Filmmaker

Original Title Black Blanc Beur
Country of Production France
Year of Production 2019
Running Time 2'20"
Language French

Awards
Best Directors Award at Nikon Film Festival

Production

Production Company or Producer Ph'art et Balise
Contact Person Matthieu Ponchel

Distribution

Distribution Company no distribution company

Synopsys

"Guys, don't you see 'Black Blanc Beur' is racist?"

Name Matthieu Ponchel / Prïncia Car
Country France
Biography
Matthieu Ponchel, a still photographer since 2013, is constantly navigating from cinema to photography and vice versa. In 2010 he creates Studio Lambda, a collective of different artists with whom he'll make several awarded short movies. Since 2016, he's working on his first long feature. Prïncia was born in Marseille in a theater family and has learned cinema in Bruxelles. She opens this year a movie school for young people from poor neighborhoods with whom she will write her first long feature.

Filmography
BLACK BLANC BEUR

Nikon Film Festival 2020, Best Directors's Award
Fête du court métrage
European Competition Festival de Contis
Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival
Très court festival
Bordeaux Shorts Festival
Melrose Festival (US)
Deptford Cinema Film Festival (UK)
Festival les InviZibles
Brest European Festival

PALACE
Official selection at the 43rd Grenoble Festival
GazteFilmFest (Alava, Spain)
Short Shot Fest (Russie)
BeBop Film Festival (New York, US)

I AM WITH THEM

Nikon Film Festival 2019, Paris, Best Actor Award
Festival Tout Court 2019
Court Festival 2019
Ciné-Jeune Festival 2020
Très Court International Film Festival 2020
Trouville Festival

2018

I AM YOURS – with Ana Carax
+ Nikon Film Festival – Best Photography Award
+ Seoul Festival
+ Tout Court Festival
+ C.L.A.C. Festival – Grand Prize of the jury, Best Actress Prize
+ Gisors Festival
+ Très court Festival

Director's notes
"Black Blanc Beur" was a very popular slogan among French people in the 1990's, 2000's. It meant that France was made of Black, White and Arab altogether and that fraternity could exist. The French soccer team was a good example of it. But 20 years later, the slogan seems a bit not inclusive...

2021