Animus Femina

A film by Éliane de Latour, 2025
Screening followed by a discussion with the director

Éliane de Latour, a research director at the CNRS, is as much an anthropologist as she is a filmmaker. She turned to documentary filmmaking after completing her PhD, and has since divided her work between France and Africa. With each film, her ethnographic perspective takes on a new narrative tension: she moves beyond the strict boundaries of reality to venture into the freer realms of fiction.

In a world where the balance of life is under threat, the film gives a voice to four women who, each in their own way, are mending the broken bonds between humans and wildlife. The filmmaker meticulously explores the possibility of their coexistence. A poetic and urgent journey, navigating between ecological crises and glimmers of hope.

This screening is part of the ‘Subjective Territories’ series. With this fifth film, a work of fiction, we aim to explore how our relationship with territory is woven and unravelled, between sensory experience and symbolic constructs, in order to create a dialogue between representations of reality and the powers of the imagination.