N e w D ocs – F eat u res
Retour au Palais Yamina Zoutat
Switzerland / France 2017, 87 min. Original language: French Production: Elefant Films, Geneva Les Films d'Ici, Paris RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Elefant Films, Geneva T +41 22 301 65 00 admin@elefantfilms.ch www.elefantfilms.ch
“The first time I ever stepped into the Courthouse in Paris, I was twenty. It was already a thousand years old monument. 6999 doors, 3150 windows and 24 kilometres of corridors, according to the legend. On the nights when I had to stay late awaiting a verdict, I would step away from the lights and sink into darker and darker corridors. I would hear rumblings coming from deep down. I had the feeling that the House was alive and it appeared to be moving. Its impending removal hastens my return. From its maze of passages and my encounters, from its lurking stories, the portrait of an abstraction emerges piece by piece: justice.” Yamina Zoutat
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* 1970 in Yverdon. Yamina Zoutat studied journalism at the Sorbonne University in Paris and worked as court reporter for TF1 from 1994–2004. She is currently teaching audiovisual writing and legal journalism at the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris. Her medium length documentary film LES LESSIVEUSES (2010) was awarded at Visions du Réel in Nyon. RETOUR AU PALAIS is Zoutat's first documentary feature film.