On the Adamant
The Golden Bear at this year’s Berlinale. The Adamant is a unique daycare centre: it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. The film invites us to board it and meet the patients and caregivers who invent its life day to day.
awards
Berlin IFF 2023 - Best Film (Golden Berlin Bear)
Nicolas Philibert
Nicolas Philibert, born in 1951, is now one of the most distinguished French documentary makers. Philibert's first feature-length documentary was Louvre City. In 1992 Philibert made the award-winning In the Land of the Deaf and four years later Every Little Thing. He won international repute with his film To Be and to Have (2002), which was also screened in Poland.
Selected filmography
1978 La voix de son maître (doc.,co-dir.)
1990 La ville Louvre / Louvre City (doc.)
1992 Le pays des sourds / In the Land of the Deaf (doc.)
1994 Un animal, des animaux / Animals and more Animals (doc.)
1996 La moindre des choses / Every Little Thing (doc.)
1998 Qui sait (doc.)
2002 Być i mieć / Etre et avoir / To Be and to Have (doc.)
2006 Powrót do Normandii / Retour en Normandie / Back to Normandy (doc.)