Le Cri du coeur / We All Don't Want To Be Afraid
Blunt Cinema (Collectif)
Around mid-November this year, the world seemed to start to succumb to senseless and big-scale violence: in Paris, in Beirut, in Kabul, in Mali, in Egypt... The Blunt Cinema collective felt a response was needed, and gathered a group of fourteen crew members, thirteen actors, and a hundred extras for a short film that could give voice to their thoughts and feelings. Not just the final film, but the process itself too became instrumental in processing what had happened and trying to retrieve a sense of hope.
Co-founded in 2015 by Dutch filmmakers Jordi Wijnalda and Freek Zonderland, Blunt Cinema is a collective of young filmmakers, striving to make films that are engaged with the world, internationally oriented, and of high cinematic quality. Responding to what Nina Simone once called "the artist's duty", the collective sets out to use the instruments of film to invite and urge people to think and care more about the world around them.