A newspaper bombed, shot up, and still flipping the bird. The French don't do 'cancelled.'
In September 2020, a trial opened at the Palais de Justice in Paris to judge those who participated in the murderous attempt to destroy a newspaper. This historic trial is that of those days in January 2015, when France witnessed live the assassination of the editorial staff of "Charlie Hebdo", the very person who had revived the newspaper in 1992. In 2020, it is in a bunker in Paris, that a new editorial staff still keeps freedom of expression alive. Starting with the trial of the January 2015 attacks and immersed in the current editorial staff of the newspaper, this documentary returns in archives, testimonies and drawings on the history of "Charlie Hebdo".
Direction
Seamless weaving of bunker present and archival past.
Editing
Cartoons as narrative punctuation, not decoration.
Director
Hugues Nancy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 2020 trial occurred in a maximum-security bunker courtroom built specifically for terrorism cases, the first of its kind in France.
Director Nancy spent months in the actual Charlie offices; the editorial meetings shown are unscripted, with staff sometimes forgetting cameras exist.
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