We are not Born Man
by Manuel Hanot
synopsis
Andrée (35) and Laurent (60) have very different lives. One is a queer performer from Brussels, the other spends his life on construction sites in Wallonia. Yet, sensitive to the feminist breath of our time, they are both engaged in a process of questioning their masculinity. The conversations I have with them reveal an awareness of their education, roles they’ve been assigned and no longer want to play. In filigree, other desires are revealed…
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 Man” is a very personal project on gender and the era.