On February 1, 2019, after three weeks of trial before the french criminal trial court, two police officers of the French Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), Antoine Q and Nicolas R, were sentenced to seven years in prison for the rape of Émily S in the premises of the police station 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Neither her dress nor her blood alcohol level, or even her supposedly «sexual» attitude mentioned by the defense managed to minimize the seriousness of the facts: she did not consent to sexual intercourse. This conviction comes in a particular context of collective awareness on sexual violence. It is symptomatic of a change of mentalities. A symbolic, but equally universal story in the post #MeToo era.
Spanton vs The French Police
Le procès du 36
24th TDF: World Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Ovidie
- Script: Ovidie
- Cinematography: Lionel Jan Kerguistel
- Editing: Luc Golfin
- Sound: Raphaël Guérin, Arnaud Rouzy
- Music: Geoffroy Delacroix
- Production: Magneto
- Producers: Marc Berdugo, Barbara Conforti
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: France
- Production Year: 2022
- Duration: 70΄
- Contact: Java Films
Ovidie
Filmography
2011 Rhabillage (short)
2016 Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals
2017 Everything’s Better than a Hooker
2019 You Will Give Birth in Pain
2022 Spanton vs The French Police
2016 Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals
2017 Everything’s Better than a Hooker
2019 You Will Give Birth in Pain
2022 Spanton vs The French Police