the devil
Directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2012
SYNOPSIS
“You don’t know what we are.”
Technical Crew
Technical Details
Directed and written by
Jean-Gabriel PERIOT
Sound
Xavier THIBAULT
Original Score
Boogers
Documentary - France - 2012
7 minutes - 4/3 – Black and White
Version
English with French subtitles
Production
Nicolas BREVIERE – Local Films
Distribution
Local Films Distribution
International Sales
Local Films
Press materials
Screenings and selections
Awards
- Best Documentary / Altkirch International Film Festival
- Best Short / Du grain à Démoudre Festival
- Special Mention / Festival tous courts
- Best Short Documentary / Tripoli Film Fest
- Don Quixote Award (Best International Short) / Festival Internacional de Cine de Lebu
- Explora Award / Curtocircuito
- Special Mention / IndieLisboa
- Special Award « A film with a cause » / Guanajuato International Film Festival
- Special Mention / Documentary encounters Columbia
Festivals
- Screenings during "Le Jour le Plus Court" / 2014 / France
- Black & Basque Festival / 2014 / France
- Lille International Short Film Festival / 2014 / France
- L’Inconnu Festival / 2013 / France
- Mémoire à Vif / 2013 / France
- Cinéfil Festival / 2013 / France
- International Contis Film Festival / 2013 / France
- Images Contre Nature / 2013 / France
- Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris / 2013 / France
- Parole de Galère / 2013 / France
- Villeurbanne Short Film Festival / 2013 / France
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Lab Section) / 2013 / France
- Vidéoformes / 2013 / France
- États Généraux du Film Documentaire / 2012 / France
- Festival Silhouette / 2012 / France
- Cinéma Brut / 2012 / France
- Un Festival C’est Trop Court - Nice Short Film Festival / 2012 / France
- Les Instants Vidéo / 2012 / France
- Bobines Rebelles / 2012 / France
- Séquence Court-Métrage / 2012 / France
- Festival du Cinéma Européen / 2012 / France
- Portobello Film Festival / 2014 / England
- Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig) / 2014 / Germany
- Lago Film Festival / 2014 / Italy
- Human District Festival / 2014 / Serbia
- Lichter FilmFest Frankfurt International / 2014 / Germany
- ZagrebDox / 2013 / Croatia
- Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival / 2013 / Portugal
- Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival (SESIFF) / 2013 / South Korea
- Athens Video Art Festival / 2013 / Greece
- Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival / 2013 / Czech Republic
- BFI London Film Festival / 2013 / England
- DokumentART / 2013 / Germany
- Milano Film Festival / 2013 / Italy
- Mediawave International Film and Music Gathering / 2013 / Hungary
- Cinema Jove International Film Festival / 2013 / Spain
- Tenerife Shorts - Tenerife International Short Film Festival / 2013 / Spain
- Curt.doc / 2013 / Spain
- Director’s Lounge / 2013 / Germany
- It’s All True - International Documentary Film Festival / 2013 / Brazil
- Timishort Film Festival / 2013 / Romania
- Mecal International Short Film and Animation Festival of Barcelona / 2012 / Spain
- Festival dei Popoli - International Documentary Film Festival / 2012 / Italy
- Oslo Short Film Festival / 2012 / Norway
- IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) / 2012 / Netherlands
- Euroshorts / 2012 / Poland
- Sopot Film Festival / 2012 / Poland
- Reprise of the Award-Winning Films at Curtocircuíto / 2014 / Chile
- 4ª Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental DOCSTOWN / 2014 / Mexico
- Muestra de Documentales de Derechos Humanos ‘Derecho a Ver’ / 2014 / Colombia
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Murcia (IBAFF) / 2014 / Spain
- Wellington Underground Film Festival / 2014 / New Zealand
- Abu Dhabi Film Festival / 2012 / United Arab Emirates
- Pune Short Film Festival / 2012 / India
- Valdivia International Film Festival / 2012 / Chile
- FENACO - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes / 2012 / Peru
- FLEXIFF (First and Last Experimental International Film Festival) / 2012 / Australia
TRAILER
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Born in France in 1974, Jean-Gabriel Périot has made some twenty short films (montage, fiction, animation), developing a distinctive editing style often built on archive footage. His work recurrently questions violence and history. Short films such as “Even If She Had Been a Criminal…” (2006), “200,000 Phantoms” (2007) and “The Devil” (2012) have been selected and awarded at numerous international festivals.
In 2015, his first feature film, “A German Youth”, about the early years of the Red Army Faction, opened the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival and went on to be selected and awarded at around a hundred festivals worldwide. It was followed by “Summer Lights” (2016), his first fiction film, shot in Japan around the memory of Hiroshima and premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival, and “Our Defeats” (2019), presented in the Berlinale Forum, where it received the CICAE Art Cinema Award.
“Returning to Reims [Fragments]” (2021), based on Didier Eribon’s book and narrated by Adèle Haenel, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes and won the César Award for Best Documentary in 2023. He then directed “Facing Darkness” (2023), about the siege of Sarajevo, selected at Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo and IDFA among others, and “A Life, A Manifesto” (2026), a portrait of filmmaker and revolutionary activist Michèle Firk, presented at the Cannes Film Festival.