DOCUMENTARY France 2 broadcast Tuesday evening at 22:45 “Homos, hatred.” Director Eric Guéret tells “20 Minutes” six months of casting, “afraid to testify” encountered, and the determination of France 2 to make a “movie punch …”
2006 evening, Bruno Wiel Vitry is conducted in a park where he was lynched and tortured because of his homosexuality. It is through his testimony, chilling, that opens Homos, hatred , aired Tuesday night on France 2. Closer to home, in April 2013, Wilfred was brutally assaulted while home from evening with his companion, and mail the day after his swollen face on Facebook
A few years separate the two dramas, and something has changed. homophobic hatred was released. Since the beginning of the debate on marriage in 2013, homophobic attacks have doubled, said the documentary. “This figure was a starting point, says director Eric Gueret. When suddenly, the Company designates a scapegoat, it is our responsibility to take us to the subject. “
Six months of casting
” Today, people cross the street to say they are against me, says Laurent Kerusore, Thomas Marci in More beautiful Life . Before, we were the favorite couple of the series. ” Emmanuelle, 26, from a middle-class Catholic family, she tells the feeling of “harassment” experienced during the debate.
In their voices mingle those of Amina, Irene, Jean-Pierre, Martine, Samuel, all victims of violent homophobic acts, and age, social backgrounds and different faiths. “Homophobia is not a gay thing living in the Marais in Paris,” says Eric Gueret, who sought with Philippe Besson, co-author of the film, “ diversity. To meet with witnesses, we traveled through France for months. “
Get the confidence of witnesses
Through a highly refined form, the documentary is based entirely on the new balance of power testimonies, poignant. How do you choose when it’s through them that will be drawn if not “the” face of homophobia? “We realized that we had no choice as it responds Eric Gueret. There is a great fear to testify openly, it takes a lot of courage. Many refused. “
Bruno Wiel and Wilfred had already been exposed. “For the others, we rowed,” says the director. Martine, harassed daily in the supermarket where she was storekeeper has “given his confidence” after three visits. Laurent Kerusore is the only “public figure” nine. “I would have liked more in the world of sport in particular, but I have not found …”
The violence of religion
Three young witness, to illustrate an alarming reality: homophobia is the leading cause of suicide among young people. Amina, a Muslim family, making the street by her parents when she tells them her relationship with a girl. Samuel, an orthodox Jewish family, beaten by his father, put on the street, too. Emmanuelle, from a Catholic family. “Religion is not the only reason to intolerance, but it is violent towards homosexuals. Having the three religions was not wanted, but welcome, to avoid falling into the stigma, “says Eric Gueret.
Another choice, that to insert homophobic faceless to pronounce without Date to locate, simply by voice-over. “We have extracted the archive of the last twenty years, with the desire to disconnect the word of the context, precisely because it does not change. Wanting repénaliser homosexuality, it is a permanent thing said. “
A” carte blanche “France 2
If these words are isolated from the context, the evidence is there deeply rooted. Especially that of Emmanuelle, haunted by “the images of millions of people who shout that you are an abomination.” The commitment of France Télévisions, which has launched a platform, is very clear, and Eric Gueret said he had “carte blanche France 2″. “They wanted it to be a movie punch and never braked. On the contrary. “
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