Les dépossédés

The Dispossessed

Los Desposeídos

Mathieu Roy

Canada, Switzerland

2017

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Description

The Dispossessed is an impressionist journey that sheds light on the daily strife of the world’s hungry farming class. In this era of industrialized agriculture, people who produce food across the globe are paid less than almost any other profession. Part cinema-vérité, part essay, the film examines the mechanisms by which farmers are falling into a somber cycle of despair, debt and dispossession.

Awards and festivals

- Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (2017)
- Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (2017)

Biography of the director

Mathieu Roy
Iconoclastic and nonconformist, Montreal filmmaker Mathieu Roy makes both documentary and fiction films. For over 15 years, he has travelled the world and worked with inspiring artists, including legendary New York filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

His feature documentary Surviving Progress reflects on the ravages wrought by the ideology of progress and on the fate of civilization. L’Autre Maison considers the painful realities of Alzheimer’s disease.

Mathieu has also filmed documentaries about his late father, journalist Michel Roy, filmmaker François Girard, pianist Louis Lortie, and billionaire Bernie Ecclestone. His documentary, The Dispossessed, explores the mechanisms by which the world’s peasants are impoverished.

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