Mumbo Jumbo

It was from Dahomey (now Benin, Africa) that the cult of the deads was exported - through the slave trade - to Brazil, and Haiti. The film narrates the modern story of this ethnographical, religious culture. A team of initiates could film troubling images documenting initiation ceremonies and the sacred lethargy that can take as much as seven, or even eleven days, and in which the body started decomposing itself. Then, the resuscitation happens.

Filmed at the heart of the events, composed of interviews and exclusive archives, this film sheds light on this social revolution. It denounces police brutality at the forefront of the action. Beginning with General de Gaulle's famous speech, composed of interviews and powerful testimonies from opposing camps (world figures, barricade activists, artists, and students), the film transports us to the heart of the action.

With camera in hand, Jean-Luc Magneron filmed the reality of the students, victims, rescue workers, journalists and doctors on the cobblestones. All these portraits add another dimension to the history of May 68. Dive into the heart of the events with never-before-seen, intense images. Exclusive eyewitness accounts give a better understanding of the violence that became almost ordinary as the days went by.