XXVI Festival Internacional De Cine Arqueológico Del Bidasoa: En busca de la escritura olvidada

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À la recherche de l’écriture oubliée
En busca de la escritura olvidada Thibaut Marchand Negar Zoka

Dec-2024

53' French France

Today, there are less than a dozen unfolded writings in the world, which remain a challenge for modern-day Champollions. After more than fifteen years, archaeologist François Desset and his team have managed to resurrect a thousand-years-old civilization... Thanks to their research, the greatest secrets of this linear Elamite writing are now revealed. This long [...]

Category: Documentary

Genre: Historical

Section: Official section

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Director

Thibaut Marchand

France

Biofilmography

For the past fifteen years, Thibaud Marchand has been writing and directing documentaries on history, archaeology and anthropology, notably for ARTE, France 5 and France 3.

Between 2013 and 2015, he directed eight episodes of the archaeological series Sur nos traces, broadcast on ARTE. Then, again for ARTE, from 2016 to 2017 he directed several episodes of the series Archaeological Investigations, which took him from Greenland (the Viking epic) to Easter Island (the great taboo), from Spain (el Argar the forgotten civilisation) to Peru (Pachacamac the pre-Hispanic Lourdes). At the same time, Thibaud Marchand has directed several episodes of the anthropological series Rituels du monde (on ARTE), including Bolivie, se battre pour la Pachamama and Samoa, le tatouage en héritage.

In 2018, he returned to Easter Island to make a long-format film, Easter Island, Truth Time, broadcast on France 5. He then travelled to Switzerland between 2018 and 2019 to film Schnidi, le fantôme du Néolithique. He is the author of a book published by Larousse, Schnidi et la révolution néolithique. In 2023, for Arte, he made a new long-format film, Empire Inca, l'histoire révélée, and a 52', Neandertal, premier artiste de l'humanité?
In 2024, again for Arte, he will be co-directing A la recherche de l'écriture oubliée (In Search of Forgotten Writing) and embarking on the filming of a new feature-length film, Charlemagne, empereur d'Occident, mythe universel (Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, Universal Myth), due for release in 2026.

Since 2011, he has also been one of the directors of the programme Des racines et des ailes, broadcast on France 3. The twenty or so subjects he has produced for this programme have enabled him to draw up portraits of illustrious characters, including Agnès Sorel, the favourite of Charles VII, Pierre-Paul Riquet, the brilliant creator of the Canal du Midi, the powerful Dukes of Burgundy and Gustave Eiffel. In this programme, he also explores the history of emblematic - but often little-known - sites of France's heritage, such as the Chambord estate, the Château de Versailles, Chartres Cathedral and Notre-Dame de Paris, where he filmed a few days before and a few days after the fire in 2019.

Director

Negar Zoka

France

Biofilmography