Reducing the risk

Written and directed by Cécile Favier


Synopsis

In the fight against addiction to hard drugs, the repressive whole has continued to maintain marginalities in the margins to the detriment of health and public safety but also of human dignity.

After 30 years of debate between public authorities and activist associations, the first two French reception centers authorizing the injection of hard drugs opened in Paris and Strasbourg in the fall of 2016: the lower-risk consumption rooms, sadly tricked out called “shooting rooms.”

Reducing the risk is an immersive look into the Argos room in Strasbourg.



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Format
: 16/9 - 1x52’ - Colour - HD
Production: UN FILM À LA PATTE & FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS
Fundings: Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée, Région Grand Est and Strasbourg Eurométropole in partnership with CNC, Procirep-Angoa
International distribution: LUKARN
First broadcaster: France 3 Grand Est
© 2021

TECHNICAL CREW:
Image & sound: Cécile Favier
Additional images: Aidan Obrist
Additional sounds: Grégory Pernet & Jérémie Vernerey
Editing: Frédéric Arnoux
Original music: Frédéric Arnoux

FESTIVAL:
- Award "Coup de Coeur du Jury Jeune" 
at the Festival Le Réel en vue de Thionville (France), 2022
- "Mention découverte"
at the Festival du Film d’Action Social de Nancy (France), 2022
- Official selection at The REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium, Los Angeles, 2022
- Official selection at the 40th edition of the Festival psy de Lorquin (France), 2022