Spanish-French director Joseph Gordillo takes a careful look at the reasons for why the inhabitants of a small French town vote for Marine Le Pen. The filmmaker captures the frustration felt toward a political and economic system, the slogans that catch on and people consciously voting in order to disrupt. A film for reflecting on the reasons behind the rise of the extreme right in Europe. (GGP)
Joseph Gordillo
A journalist since 1989, he began his professional career as a reporter for Radio Television in Luxembourg. In 2007, he was the Madrid-based correspondent for Spain, Morocco and Portugal for the Franco-German channel ARTE, for which he had already covered the war in Iraq, the situation in Darfur and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza. That same year, he wrote and directed his first documentary El Muro de los Olvidados, which earned First Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. In 2010, he made the short documentary Siriman, which won awards at such festivals as DocumentaMadrid and Cinestrat Alicante. In 2012 in Berlin, he was awarded the Franco-German journalism prize in the category of multimedia for the web series Los indignados, made for the channel ARTE. In 2014, he made the documentary short film Morir en Madrid, acto II. A year later, he completed Brumaire, a documentary feature written with Laetitia Giroux for France 3 Grand-Est.