Ruptures, directed by Arthur Gosset, is a documentary on the environmental and social awareness of the new generation of students. The film follows six paths breaking with well-traced destinies: brilliant studies and the promise of a great career. However, nothing went as planned …
The premiere of the documentary will take place on December 9 in New York, under the baton of Cédric Boismain, a Frenchman from New York, committed to the environmental cause.
Environmental and social awareness
« Far from being anecdotal, the documentary Ruptures explores a fundraising movement affecting young graduates: since 2018, tens of thousands of students and young graduates are questioning a system in which they no longer recognize themselves: unbridled capitalism and enterprises
considered too polluting. Faced with an emergency, they feel the vital need to act, regardless of the social downgrading and the financial difficulties that this may cause: some choose entrepreneurship, others involvement in associations, still others, big company to transform it from the inside. There are no rules, you have to reinvent your place in society, ” Explain Cédric Boismain who, out of conviction and commitment, decided to organize, in agreement with the production, the American premiere of the documentary Ruptures, in French, on Thursday, December 9 in Manhattan.
Our editorial team asked three questions to Cédric Boismain, a French graphic designer who has lived in New York since 2013.
Rachel Brunet: What prompted you to organize this event on December 9?
Cédric Boismain : I discovered the existence of the documentary Ruptures by Arthur Gosset in an article in the newspaper La Croix addressing the question of the quest for meaning for young people in a context where the Future with a capital A is increasingly uncertain . Indeed, when we ask the question to 16-25 year olds, one in two considers that “humanity is doomed”. Faced with this fatalism, linked in part to the lack of action of our leaders, the documentary Ruptures offers 6 life courses which face this anxiety and which gives hope and meaning through commitment. It is this complex reality that I wish to help at my modest level to share with the French in New York. This projection aims both to overcome this concern through action and to help raise awareness: start a dialogue and be a catalyst for those who wish to engage more concretely against climate change.
Tell us about your commitment to the environmental cause?
My commitment to climate issues is both ancient and accidental: it is simply linked to the context in which I grew up, for example I was 16 when President Jacques Chirac declared that “our house is on fire” and that we were watching elsewhere, my awareness followed that of society in general, but in my case always accompanied by concern for social justice as well as environmental.
Who is Ruptures for and the event you are organizing on December 9?
This screening is aimed at the entire French-speaking community of New York, because it addresses a universal and transpartisan theme: the meaning of personal commitment in the context of climate change. That said, Ruptures offers a particular focus for young workers and students living here on a temporary basis. Indeed, this documentary is made by a young director from Centrale Nantes and is designed as a conversation starter around environmental and societal issues. The aim here is to help the French community to participate in the fight against climate change and its consequences. While in Glasgow, the COP26 ends with a tentative agreement, we remember the catastrophic floods in northern Europe this summer, the fires in California, Canada and Greece, but also storms like Ida and her dozens of victims here. even at the beginning of September in New York and New Jersey.
To reserve a place for the premiere of Ruptures
Thursday December 9 at Sixth Street Community Center
638 E Sixth Street (between Avenues B & C) New York, NY 10009
In the program :
7:15 p.m. Opening
19h30 Projection
8:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Debate
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