“Riverboom”

☞SUMMARY

🎞️FILM: ‘Riverboom’ directed by Claude Baechtold (1h 35mins) in French with English subtitles

🎬DATE & TIME: Wednesday, April 16th, drinks at 7pm, screening at 8:15pm

📽️CINÉMA: Jeu de Paume, 1 Pl. de la Concorde, 75008 Paris

🎟MOVIE TICKETS: €7.5 – €11.5 https://jeudepaume.org/evenement/riverboom/

☞THE MOVIE: 

“In the year following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the self-confessed anti-militarist from French-speaking Switzerland is dragged on a tour of the entire country by two fearless reporters. Equipped with a video camera he bought at a bazaar in Kabul, he follows them for two months on a daring journey. With impressive archive footage that was until recently thought lost, Baechtold captures in his humorous road movie doc how he inadvertently becomes a war reporter and is able thereby to deal with his own personal strokes of fate.” – Synopsis

“Riverboom is the wild odyssey of three young war reporters in the chaotic aftermath of 9/11 in Afghanistan. A thrilling road movie, it’s a tragicomic documentary full of humor and self-deprecation.”

Watch the trailer with English subtitles: https://youtu.be/1FQ0gQ_gXjg   

🎬The Lost in Frenchlation and Jeu de Paume Team