Children In Limbo
Director
: Mariette Feltin
Camera : Solène
Doerflinger
Sound : Suzanne Erkalp
Year : 2003
Length :
52 min
Coproduction with France 3 Alsace
French version only
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When there is a collision between birth and death, the
invisibility of the event and the extent of its minimisation
by family and friends are overwhelming.
Limbo exists in the Christian imagination of the beyond
and should free parents from the haunting thought of
their infant suffering eternal damnation.
Today, how do we recognise these children who have no
apparent history ?
Véronique, Laurence and Nicole have, each in
their own way, held out against the disappearance of
limbo, this undefined, blurred region between dream
and reality.
The film unfolds around fragments of words spoken by
these three women who have been confronted with perinatal
bereavement. They evoke the moment of trauma, the need
to create concrete traces and the possibility of a life,
after.
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Awarded the “Bronze Key” at the Psy
Film Festival, Lorquin, June 2003 |
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