NO MAN IS BORN TO BE STEPPED ON
Directed by Narimane Baba-Aïssa and Lucas Roxo, 2023





SYNOPSIS
In the sertão, a desert region in northern Brazil, the vengeful spirit of a bandit of honor prowls. Died in 1938, Lampião took justice into his own hands in a territory exacerbated by agrarian conflicts. Following in his footsteps, we meet the men and women who rebel against the established order and claim to be his heirs today. By brandishing the memory of this popular hero, they resist the attempt of Jair Bolsonaro, ultraconservative president, to resurrect the fascist demons of Brazil. No Man is Born to be Trampled is a 35-minute photographic and sound design documentary. A choral and poetic film, bordering on the mystical, it explores the subversive power of a ghost and proposes a sensitive experience through a journey into the Brazilian popular memory.
Technical Data
Technical Crew
Directed by
Narimane BABA AÏSSA
Lucas ROXO
Photography
Lucas ROXO
Sound
Narimane BABA AÏSSA
Editing
Lucas ROXO
Narimane BABA AÏSSA
Rodolphe MOLLA
Sound editing
Carole VERNER
Sound mix
Laure ARTO
Soundtrack
Marius ATHERTON
Sébastien POLITI
Documentary - France - 2023
35 minutes - 2K - 1.66:1
Color and Black&White
Versions
Portuguese with french subtitles
Portuguese with english subtitles
Production
Nicolas BREVIÈRE – Local Films
Partners
With CNC support
Seine-Saint-Denis department (county)
PROCIREP-ANGOA
Préludes
Festivals
Shortlisted for the César 2025 for Best
Documentary Short Film :
50th César Ceremony / France / 2025
Award for Best Editing and
Best Sound Creation :
Festival Les Nuits Photos / France / 2024
Brésil en Mouvements Documentary Festival / France / 2024
Douarnenez Film Festival / France / 2024
Les Nuits Méditerranéennes Festival / France / 2024
Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival / Greece / 2024
Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival - BARCIFF / Spain / 2023
Material

Lucas Roxo
Formerly a journalist in traditional media (France Info, RTS), Lucas Roxo gradually turned to a different way of telling the world: documentary filmmaking. Interested in questions related to memory, identity, and representation, his journey is characterized by immersion in places marked by these issues, whether in France (Roubaix, suburban Paris) or abroad (Portugal, Brazil). Depending on the subjects, his work varies between a classical formal approach and a more _____
advanced aesthetic exploration, particularly by playing with the contrast between image and sound. In 2013, his first film, *La marche d’après*, tells the story of the 30 years since the march for equality and against racism in 1983. Very interested in participatory cinema, he experimented with collective filmmaking in 2018, which continued in 2019 with the production of *Regarde-nous*.
Narimane Baba Aïssa
Narimane Baba Aïssa is a musician and filmmaker of sound documentaries. She performs in several ensembles that navigate between classical music and experimental rock. Fascinated by the diversity that sound material has to offer, she builds aesthetic bridges between documentary and music. Her work weaves connections between intimate and political memory, seeking traces of the dead in the world of the living.
"Tibratin – Les lettres", her first sound documentary, tells the story of her __________
grandmother, who was exiled from Algeria, in her quest to find the graves of her family members who came from Belgium. *Algérie Chouhada*, winner of the Brouillon d’un Rêve Sonore Grant from SCAM in 2019, chronicles a back-and-forth journey between France and Algeria during the social movement of Hirak, intertwined with a search for childhood memories.