Mohamed, Coline, Lilou, Riwan and Maël are five young college students from Rennes, born in 2008. And this series, the second chapter of which is broadcast on Wednesday, November 17 on The Parliamentary Channel, aims and aims to document each year of their life for ten years. Unsurprisingly, their fifth grade school year, in 2020-2021, was strongly marked by the presence of Covid-19, with the presence of current masks, among others. And the 58 minutes show them to us both at college, but also at home with family and during their outdoor activities. “I have a lot of hours of images. I shot a fortnight during the year. It’s a college that opened the doors to me and families too, which allows me to have a lot of freedom”, emphasizes François Chevré.
“It’s necessarily incomplete because to sum up the life of a year of five people in 58 minutes is complicated but I tried to be as faithful as possible and find the moments that told them the best possible.”
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They are young people of their time, and of their age. They absolutely love football, makeup, manga, game consoles. “I find this generation very happy in relation to the times we are living in, quite advanced intellectually and very conscious. These young people are capable of speaking about feminism, of equality between men and women, of being aware of what poverty is, which shows that they are open to the outside. They are able to reflect on the world around them. This is the theme of this second episode. Yes, I find that they live well together. Ecology, we haven’t talked about it yet but I can assure you that it will come because they are already quite aware “, comments François Chevré.
When you watch Generation 2008, you inevitably think of Michel Fresnel’s cult program, What will become of them? broadcast on Antenne 2 in the 1980s, or more recently the documentary Teenage girls by Sébastien Lifshitz. But what does François Chevré want to tell us, show us with this approach? “I want to show how a generation is growing up in France and I hope that later it will become something heritage because when I looked at the old ‘What will become of them?’ for me it is intangible heritage. And I also want to see what life course they will have and in ten years how will they be integrated into our society. “
With a sociological virtue? “Obviously there is a bit of sociology. There are children with different personalities who come from different backgrounds. But I don’t want to make sociological animals of them, which would tend to caricature them. It’s something I want to avoid and everyone has their own mind “, concludes François Chevré.
Generation 2008, who will they be tomorrow? second episode Wednesday November 17 at 8:30 p.m. on The Parliamentary Channel. Replay of episode 2 at 12:30 a.m., and both are available for free on YouTube.