Private Project

Somewhere else

The Holiday Department of the AMAHC association in Lyon [Association for a Better Autonomy of Adults with Psychic Disabilities in the City] organizes adapted stays in the whole of France. For many of their clients, these few days of vacations are the only time in the year that allows them to get out of a sometimes challenging hospital environment. An opportunity to relax, to change one's mind, to have fun – but also to take a risk; that of going to reach out to one another.

  • Brune Charvin
    Director
    Sylvia, 50mm of Coffee, Chasing your shadow
  • Brune Charvin
    Writer
  • AMAHC
    Writer
  • AMAHC
    Producer
  • George
    Key Cast
  • Manola
    Key Cast
  • Sophie
    Key Cast
  • Sandrine
    Key Cast
  • Danielle
    Key Cast
  • Simone
    Key Cast
  • Gabrielle
    Key Cast
  • Léo
    Key Cast
  • Chloé
    Key Cast
  • Marie
    Key Cast
  • Virginie
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Ailleurs
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    24 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 30, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital (5DMIV)
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Brune Charvin

French, I lived 10 years outside of my homeland: India, England, Senegal, Indonesia and Germany were my successive hosts countries. Graduating from a BA [Hons] First Class from the World Performance course at East15 Acting School in England, I became a filmmaker through the teaching of my own experiences.
From short, awarded documentaries shot in Senegal, to being selected for the International Summer Program at the Watermill Center in New York under the direction of Robert Wilson, I was also selected by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take part in their IACS program [Indonesian Art and Culture Scholarship] in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Back in Europe three years later, I followed the Hutto Project, an educational initiative that provided opportunities for music education and performance to children of displaced populations living in an emergency refugee camp in West Berlin. This later inspired many social-based projects with fragile communities in France: adults with psychiatric disabilities, children with traumatic backgrounds.

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Director Statement

I’ve always chosen to face the absence of a similar culture, religion, verbal or physical language. Somehow I wanted to experience the meaning of the term ‘difference’ in order to get closer to what it is then, that brings us together. What do I have in common with all these people? Can we transcend national, educational and linguistic boundaries? My life work is a constant search on how to use the camera as a bridge – creating a moment and a space where people can express what is difficult to express otherwise, in a language that anyone, anywhere, can understand; and by doing so, actually discovering some pillars of our human condition.