A Family (2024 film)
A Family (French: Une famille) is a 2024 French documentary directed by Christine Angot in her first directing work. It is an autobiographical film in which Angot looks at a family affected by incest. Returning to Strasbourg with her camera during a book tour, she revisits the time when, starting at age thirteen, her father began to rape her. Although he has died, other relatives still live there, and Angot knocks on their doors to speak with them—the mother, a sister, a spouse, and others—to explore what remains unsaid about the past and the present.
The film questions what family members are willing to say about the incest and how the story is told across time. It runs 82 minutes, is in French, and was produced by Madison Films, Le Bureau, and Rectangle Productions, with Nour Films handling distribution. A Family had its world premiere in the Encounters section at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on 18 February 2024 and was nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Film Award. It was released in French theaters on 20 March 2024. Critics such as Fabien Lemercier called it a radical, powerful documentary that confronts the unthinkable.
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