Events

Documentary | 1h55 | Directed by Alice Diop

The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. A moving testament to the importance of filming as a process of bearing witness and remembering, We is subtle and shrewd in a world which favours shortcuts and easy answers. Justifiably adopting the fragmented structure of a patchwork portrait in order to describe a riven society, Diop displays impressive control of her essay and its impact. In the film’s first few minutes, a deer is observed, through binoculars. Isolation, discrimination and nostalgia for hierarchies, inherited from a monarchical past… Divisions haunt France’s present. But the human urge to give as well as to receive stubbornly creeps into every situation, observed or triggered.

Could this be the one thing that still keeps a nation together?

Through portraits and moments, the film offers a quietly powerful reflection on fractured French society—touching on memory, migration, class, and identity. A profound and poetic documentary that invites us to listen, reflect, and connect.