Repairing Men
by Manuel Hanot
synopsis
Two years ago, Laurent, I met you in a men’s discussion group. You spend your days insulating roofs in the dust – so what were you doing in Brussels, questioning your masculinity? An intimate conversation began between us. Our twenty-year age difference doesn’t matter: today’s feminist wave has shaken us both. So how do we invent new ways of being a man?
biography
Manuel studied film and directing at the Agnès Varda school in Brussels. His first projects have a strong relationship with the social era. He made a television news show with people without residence permits for a year, which they presented. He also made two documentaries about violence and hope in the jungle of Calais (Dead-end of the far world, 6 min , 2016) or in the ZAD of Notre-dame des Landes (tribute to the ZAD, 20 min, 2018). His graduation film is a fiction about the emancipation of work through anger (En Roues libres, 20 min, 2020). He directed several films for the CVB, the latest of which is a portrait of an association that fights against housing insecurity (Les villes succombent aussi, 50 min, 2022). “We are not Born Men” is a very personal project on gender and the era.