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THE REMNANTS

By Paolo BARBIERI , Riccardo RUSSO

TASKOVSKI FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2017

A journey into the contradictions of today’s wars, in which the remains of the conflict always outlive the conflict itself.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY, SWITZERLAND
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Paolo BARBIERI , Riccardo RUSSO
- Synopsis
- What is the most heavily bombed country in History? A country that never formally entered a war, Laos. Between 1964 and 1973, during the Vietnam war, the American air force carried out over 500.000 bombing missions over Laos, drop- ping more than 2 million tons of explosives over the country. Forty years later everything changed, but the life of Nouds and Saysamone, both born after the end of hostilities, is still deeply affected by the legacy of war. Nouds, is a tourist guide. He is a child of the revolution, but hopes to seize the possibilities offered by the recent opening of the country to the global market by organizing "war tours". Saysamone is the leader of a team of demining women. Day after day she risks his life to neutralize unexploded ordnance that still exists in the Lao territory. Two equally emblematic situations, two parallel stories that will lead us to the discovery of contemporary Laos. The Remnants is a journey into the contradictions of today’s wars, in which the remains of the conflict always outlive the conflict itself. It is a journey into the culture and spirituality of a people that manages to incorporate good and evil, construction and destruction, and to convert killing objects into handy tools to tackle everyday life.