For 18 months, three women in prison, whose faces cannot be filmed, take part in a self-portrait class which pushes them to the extremes of introspection. Louise, Titit and Enza confront their own images -both hidden and revealed- and question their “inner prison”. On paper, a wound becomes a shadow, one's image turns out to be a blurry shape, and memories flow off the tip of a brush. The film discretely and empathetically works its way through prison bars to fearlessly break through others, much deeper ones.
Born in Britain in 1970, Chris Pellerin is a French director. After many years spent in England and Italy where she studied theatre and foreign literature, she starts drawing and painting as as a self-taught artist. Back in France she started studying Fine Arts in Caen in 1994. There, she continues drawing, and she also films daily life, like a logbook.
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In the mining area of Tunisia on January 5, 2008, a sit-in in front of the town hall of Redeyef |