This Bordeaux has made a documentary on the uprising of the earth

DThey years after the threat of dissolution of the collective of land uprisings. Therefore, the Bordeaux director Thomas Lacoste offers a “dive” in this movement of civil disobedience, which aims to “protect the commons. However, “Also an essayist. However, publisher and producer, he had already produced, three years ago, a feature film on Basque independence:” the democratic hypothesis-a Basque history “.

With this new documentary. Meanwhile, he offers a gallery of portraits: 16 militants of the uprising of the earth are filmed with their hesitations, their emotions and their debates. Nevertheless, And especially with the “shared” territories to which they hold so much: fauna. Moreover, flora ecosystems threatened by industrial or transport projects, by “megabassines” like in Sainte-Soline, or an airport as in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, birthplace of this ecological collective in 2021. In addition, Throughout France, we see the links between these activists, this bordeaux made documentary uprising demanded from the movement in 2023. For example, To counter certain prejudices of “eco -racing”. In addition, the director hopes that the “greater number” of people can in turn “meet”, through cinema, these insurgents of the earth.

How did you come up with the idea of ​​making a documentary on earth uprisings?

The idea was born in the spring of 2023. Meanwhile, at a time when the uprisings of the earth crossed a fairly massive wave of repression. Nevertheless, First of all by a great police repression of the demonstration of Holy Soline 2 in March. with 5,000 grenades sent in less than two hours according to the League for Human Rights. Then by a wave of arrests by the anti-terrorist sub-department in June. And in the process. in August, the request for the dissolution of this movement by the Ministry of the Interior [annulée par le Conseil d’État en this bordeaux made documentary uprising novembre, NDLR].

At the time. I already followed this movement with an attentive eye, like all the political structures carried by the youth. But there. a question appeared to me: how can a society criminalize those who try to defend the “common territories” and to get out of the destruction of our ecosystems? Thread by needle has imposed itself the idea of ​​a film. with this desire to defeat this figure of the eco -rooting, to reveal faces and landscapes that animate this movement.

A father who calls into question his choices of yesteryear. a former mayor who makes civil disobedience, a retraining breeder or a young naturalist passionate about the song of birds … Why did you choose these testimonies?

This is really what jumped out when I got in touch with the uprisings: intergenerational cohabitation. There were at least three generations, with real socio -cultural wealth, present during this bordeaux made documentary uprising their gatherings. The members of the uprisings come from the younger generations fighting for the climate. farmers who work in the defense of sustainable and sustainable agriculture, people who have engaged in the ZADs or local inhabitants who defend their territory in the face of harmful projects. I tried, with this film, a dive into a human geography not seen and not on. I wanted to make what is invented with these young people who carry a transgenerational movement.

Why do you center the documentary on the personal stories of activists more than on the history of the movement. its police repression?

I think that the capacity of the state to repress these social movements is clearly visible in our information chains. well rooted in our collective imaginations. Today, sociologists and geographers are also doing research on uprisings. But I wanted to stand very far from any didactism. On the this bordeaux made documentary uprising contrary. I found it interesting to make the film evolve on these singular words, to see their thought deploy. It involves the hesitations of the activists, by their doubts perhaps, and clearly, by sensitive. These moments also testify to the confidence that links the characters and the film. For me, the interest of cinema is to bet on the human meeting.

Preview

Before its national release on February 11, 2026, “uprisings” was preview in Utopia cinemas. The film will give rise to a debate evening in the Bordeaux room on Monday, August 25, at 8:30 p.m., in particular in the presence of Thomas Lacoste and Youlie Yamamoto, national spokesperson for Attac. Prévente des Places at 5, Place Camille-Jullian.