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THINGS WILL BE BETTER TOMORROW
30m - France 2
Patricia, a Parisian interior designer, left everything behind at the age of 50 to look after her father, who has Alzheimer's disease, in a small village in Normandy. After struggling to keep Michel in our logical world, she learned to enter his: that of fantasy, of poetry. In order not to upset him, to prevent his anguish, she lies to him. Patricia has understood that fighting this incurable disease is useless and painful, whereas accepting it - even playing with it - paradoxically allows her to delay its effects. A father, a daughter and Alzheimer's. By exploring the intimacy of this trio, the empirical way in which Patricia adapts to ensure a gentle and dignified end for her father, this film delivers a rare and touching testimony, telling a story of extraordinary filial love, where in the ordeal each has found his place and his balance.
©BarnaBe/Avril 2021
Réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Auteurs : Vincent Nguyen, Jean-Charles Guichard, Matthieu Parmentier
A three-part series on shared homes for seniors, an alternative to medicalized nursing homes launched in the Tarn region
©BarnaBe/Mars 2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Shared winter
Return to the Tarn on the occasion of the opening of a brand new Shared Home which welcomes 5 new residents. Monique, Josette, Simone, Yolande and Sylvette spend their first week as flatmates in the company of the energetic Josette Ancilotto, at the head of the association Âges sans Frontières, who helps them get their bearings. By sharing a house, these pretty ladies have chosen to turn a page together and make sure that, like in a good novel, the last chapter is the tastiest.
Spring in winter
Monique, René, Jacques, Michel are between 75 and 85 years old. Without being dependent or bedridden, they can no longer live alone and. As is often the case, their children cannot take them in. Elsewhere, they would go to a nursing home where they would quickly lose contact with the outside world, that of the living. But here, in the Tarn (France), they have the chance to live an exemplary experience: the Shared Home. A concept imagined by, Josette, a former associative nursing home director. Attaching and out of the ordinary, she is well placed to know that France has a problem in the way to treat its elders. In Tauriac, we followed the first week of a new resident, Suzanne, who at 76 years old is starting a new life: the spring of her winter.
©BarnaBe/Novembre 2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Getting old, remaining free
While COVID is particularly affecting our seniors and has claimed many victims in retirement homes, we wanted to hear from these endearing elderly roommates, who have chosen to age in a less medicalized, but human-sized structure. Jacques is doing better, Suzanne not so well and René, with his tongue in cheek, still embodies common sense. Newcomers like Patrice help bring life to music despite an unwanted guest at Brens' house.
©BarnaBe/Janvier 2021
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
France 2 (13h15) - 30/45mn
The Malo's oath
The Malo’s oath is the story of three extraordinary siblings. In the summer of 2021, Roman, 25, Morgane, 20, and Yonah, 13, accompany their mother in her final battle against a fulminating cancer. From then on, orphans and precarious students, the three Malo children fight to keep the double promise made to their mother: not to abandon their studies and to stay together obtaining Yonah's guardianship.
Le serment des Malo, la suite - 33mn
Deux plus tard, la réalisatrice Léa Barracco est retournée voir Jonah, Morgane et Roman. L'aîné de la fratrie a soutenu sa thèse avec succès tandis que les deux soeurs poursuivent leurs études avec succès.
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Auteur-réalisateur : Jean-Sébastien Desbordes
Cycling for Emmaüs - 45mn
When Abbé Pierre died in 2007, companions and friends of Emmaus from Savoie had a crazy idea: to cycle to Porte de Versailles in Paris, where the Emmaus Salon, Europe's largest second-hand goods fair, is held every year. Since then, the "Recyclade" tradition has been perpetuated. 650 kilometres in 6 days. While following this beautiful human adventure through superb countryside landscapes, we retrace in archives the journey of the man that all Emmaus communities still call "the father": the unforgettable Abbé Pierre.
©BarnaBe/Sept.2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
©BarnaBe/Janvier 2024
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
Vincent's House
This is the story of a rebirth, a new chance, another life set in a Belle Époque style house in a small seaside village in the Somme. This house has recently become a home for autistic adults, both verbal and non-verbal. Some spend their evenings immersed in the dictionary, others only say a few words. They live at their own pace, finally in peace. They are more autonomous, less isolated, some work. Vincent, one of the six residents, gave his name to the house. This initiative is turning the page on decades of inappropriate care for autistic adults.
©BarnaBe/Juin 2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Inside Rungis - 45mn
After the construction of the Halles de Paris under Napoleon III, Emile Zola nicknamed them "The Belly of Paris". Goods from all over France overflowed into the street, "sur le carreau" as it was called. It was the busiest district in the capital and people worked hard. Fifty years ago, during the "move of the century", Les Halles were transferred to Rungis. In spite of modernisation, globalisation and regulations, women and men, in love with their products and addicted to their trade, give a soul and heart to this monstrous belly, which, after having been restless all night, finally dozes off every afternoon.
France 2 (20h30) - 22mn
Les Tontons Flingueurs : a French recipe
The French cinema has given us a lot of tasty films. But Les Tontons Flingueurs, under its pot luck airs, is rubbing shoulders with haute gastronomy. What's the recipe for such a success? Apples, there's some. Beets, too. But what else?
©BarnaBe/Dec. 2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Django's world
Presentation of the film Django by Etienne Comar, through the portraits of its actors: Reda Kateb who plays Django Reinhardt, but also Forbach's gypsies, professional musicians who for the occasion improvised themselves as actors. Bimbam, the mischievous nonagenarian who plays the guitarist's mother in the film, Samson Schmitt, Hono Winterstein and Timbo Mehrstein, 3 great gipsy jazz musicians, guide us through their community, its values and its history, and tell us the life of their idol Django, genius inventor of a music that exhales freedom.
©BarnaBe/Sept 2021
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
©BarnaBe/Juin 2020
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Cordouan, a castle on the sea
At the exact point where the Gironde River flows into the Atlantic Ocean, a stone ship dropped anchor at the end of the 16th century. In the night and fog, it shines and guides sailors between currents and sandbanks. Cordouan is the oldest lighthouse in France still in operation. It was one of its keepers, Benoît Jenouvrier, who compared it to a stone boat. Alternating with five other colleagues, he ensures a permanent presence. Since automation, no lighthouse in France is inhabited. But Cordouan, a historic monument, is in a class of its own. Benoît shows us around.
France 2 (13h15 le dimanche) - séries
Radio Pinpon - 4x22mn
Eric est infirmier psychiatrique, c'est lui qui a eu l'idée de créer Radio Pinpon, pour apporter une aide aux patients, faite de bienveillance, d'écoute et pleine d'humanité. Dans la famille Pinpon, y a aussi Nathalie, pilier de l'équipe malgré sa fragilité, Alain, musicien cabossé par la vie, embarqués dans cette aventure humaine. Mais Eric envisage de partir en retraite. Comment vont réagir ceux qui lui font confiance depuis des années, les patients qui, grâce à lui, ont fait des progrès mais demeurent fragiles ?
©BarnaBe/Janvier 2024
Auteurs-réalisateurs : Margaux Meurisse & Julien Masson
THINGS WILL BE BETTER TOMORROW
30m - France 2
Patricia, a Parisian interior designer, left everything behind at the age of 50 to look after her father, who has Alzheimer's disease, in a small village in Normandy. After struggling to keep Michel in our logical world, she learned to enter his: that of fantasy, of poetry. In order not to upset him, to prevent his anguish, she lies to him. Patricia has understood that fighting this incurable disease is useless and painful, whereas accepting it - even playing with it - paradoxically allows her to delay its effects. A father, a daughter and Alzheimer's. By exploring the intimacy of this trio, the empirical way in which Patricia adapts to ensure a gentle and dignified end for her father, this film delivers a rare and touching testimony, telling a story of extraordinary filial love, where in the ordeal each has found his place and his balance.
©BarnaBe/Avril 2021
Réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Auteurs : Vincent Nguyen, Jean-Charles Guichard, Matthieu Parmentier
A three-part series on shared homes for seniors, an alternative to medicalized nursing homes launched in the Tarn region
©BarnaBe/Mars 2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Shared winter
Return to the Tarn on the occasion of the opening of a brand new Shared Home which welcomes 5 new residents. Monique, Josette, Simone, Yolande and Sylvette spend their first week as flatmates in the company of the energetic Josette Ancilotto, at the head of the association Âges sans Frontières, who helps them get their bearings. By sharing a house, these pretty ladies have chosen to turn a page together and make sure that, like in a good novel, the last chapter is the tastiest.
Spring in winter
Monique, René, Jacques, Michel are between 75 and 85 years old. Without being dependent or bedridden, they can no longer live alone and. As is often the case, their children cannot take them in. Elsewhere, they would go to a nursing home where they would quickly lose contact with the outside world, that of the living. But here, in the Tarn (France), they have the chance to live an exemplary experience: the Shared Home. A concept imagined by, Josette, a former associative nursing home director. Attaching and out of the ordinary, she is well placed to know that France has a problem in the way to treat its elders. In Tauriac, we followed the first week of a new resident, Suzanne, who at 76 years old is starting a new life: the spring of her winter.
©BarnaBe/Novembre 2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Getting old, remaining free
While COVID is particularly affecting our seniors and has claimed many victims in retirement homes, we wanted to hear from these endearing elderly roommates, who have chosen to age in a less medicalized, but human-sized structure. Jacques is doing better, Suzanne not so well and René, with his tongue in cheek, still embodies common sense. Newcomers like Patrice help bring life to music despite an unwanted guest at Brens' house.
©BarnaBe/Janvier 2021
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
France 2 (13h15) - 30/45mn
The Malo's oath
The Malo’s oath is the story of three extraordinary siblings. In the summer of 2021, Roman, 25, Morgane, 20, and Yonah, 13, accompany their mother in her final battle against a fulminating cancer. From then on, orphans and precarious students, the three Malo children fight to keep the double promise made to their mother: not to abandon their studies and to stay together obtaining Yonah's guardianship.
Le serment des Malo, la suite - 33mn
Deux plus tard, la réalisatrice Léa Barracco est retournée voir Jonah, Morgane et Roman. L'aîné de la fratrie a soutenu sa thèse avec succès tandis que les deux soeurs poursuivent leurs études avec succès.
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Auteur-réalisateur : Jean-Sébastien Desbordes
Cycling for Emmaüs - 45mn
When Abbé Pierre died in 2007, companions and friends of Emmaus from Savoie had a crazy idea: to cycle to Porte de Versailles in Paris, where the Emmaus Salon, Europe's largest second-hand goods fair, is held every year. Since then, the "Recyclade" tradition has been perpetuated. 650 kilometres in 6 days. While following this beautiful human adventure through superb countryside landscapes, we retrace in archives the journey of the man that all Emmaus communities still call "the father": the unforgettable Abbé Pierre.
©BarnaBe/Sept.2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
©BarnaBe/Avril 2022
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
©BarnaBe/Janvier 2024
Autrice-réalisatrice : Léa Barracco
Vincent's House
This is the story of a rebirth, a new chance, another life set in a Belle Époque style house in a small seaside village in the Somme. This house has recently become a home for autistic adults, both verbal and non-verbal. Some spend their evenings immersed in the dictionary, others only say a few words. They live at their own pace, finally in peace. They are more autonomous, less isolated, some work. Vincent, one of the six residents, gave his name to the house. This initiative is turning the page on decades of inappropriate care for autistic adults.
©BarnaBe/Juin 2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Inside Rungis - 45mn
After the construction of the Halles de Paris under Napoleon III, Emile Zola nicknamed them "The Belly of Paris". Goods from all over France overflowed into the street, "sur le carreau" as it was called. It was the busiest district in the capital and people worked hard. Fifty years ago, during the "move of the century", Les Halles were transferred to Rungis. In spite of modernisation, globalisation and regulations, women and men, in love with their products and addicted to their trade, give a soul and heart to this monstrous belly, which, after having been restless all night, finally dozes off every afternoon.
France 2 (20h30) - 22mn
Les Tontons Flingueurs : a French recipe
The French cinema has given us a lot of tasty films. But Les Tontons Flingueurs, under its pot luck airs, is rubbing shoulders with haute gastronomy. What's the recipe for such a success? Apples, there's some. Beets, too. But what else?
©BarnaBe/Dec. 2019
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Django's world
Presentation of the film Django by Etienne Comar, through the portraits of its actors: Reda Kateb who plays Django Reinhardt, but also Forbach's gypsies, professional musicians who for the occasion improvised themselves as actors. Bimbam, the mischievous nonagenarian who plays the guitarist's mother in the film, Samson Schmitt, Hono Winterstein and Timbo Mehrstein, 3 great gipsy jazz musicians, guide us through their community, its values and its history, and tell us the life of their idol Django, genius inventor of a music that exhales freedom.
©BarnaBe/Sept 2021
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
©BarnaBe/Juin 2020
Auteur-réalisateur : Vincent Nguyen
Cordouan, a castle on the sea
At the exact point where the Gironde River flows into the Atlantic Ocean, a stone ship dropped anchor at the end of the 16th century. In the night and fog, it shines and guides sailors between currents and sandbanks. Cordouan is the oldest lighthouse in France still in operation. It was one of its keepers, Benoît Jenouvrier, who compared it to a stone boat. Alternating with five other colleagues, he ensures a permanent presence. Since automation, no lighthouse in France is inhabited. But Cordouan, a historic monument, is in a class of its own. Benoît shows us around.
France 2 (13h15 le dimanche) - séries
Radio Pinpon - 4x22mn
Eric est infirmier psychiatrique, c'est lui qui a eu l'idée de créer Radio Pinpon, pour apporter une aide aux patients, faite de bienveillance, d'écoute et pleine d'humanité. Dans la famille Pinpon, y a aussi Nathalie, pilier de l'équipe malgré sa fragilité, Alain, musicien cabossé par la vie, embarqués dans cette aventure humaine. Mais Eric envisage de partir en retraite. Comment vont réagir ceux qui lui font confiance depuis des années, les patients qui, grâce à lui, ont fait des progrès mais demeurent fragiles ?
©BarnaBe/Janvier 2024
Auteurs-réalisateurs : Margaux Meurisse & Julien Masson
WHO IS BARNABE?
BarnaBe is a Spanish production company. Born on January 1st 2019, it has the energy and appetite of youth, but benefits from the long experience of its creators in the audio-visual sector.
Two complementary profiles have chosen the very dynamic, cosmopolitan and inspiring Barcelona to explore together new ways of creating, supporting, developing, directing and producing ambitious documentaries and innovative content, drawing on international talents and fundings.
Vincent Nguyen, producer and director, started at France 2 (the main French public channel) twenty-five years ago. A senior reporter for TV news and current affairs, notably Envoyé Spécial and Un Oeil sur la Planète. He also created with Laurent Delahousse programmes such as "Un jour un Destin" and "13h15". Then he left France Télévisions to create and host documentary series for Arte ("Par Avion") and France 5 ("360@"). He directed several long feature documentaries before moving to the Catalan capital and founding his own production company, with Katia Pinzon.
Katia Pinzon is a producer with 20 years of experience in the French audio-visual industry. From dubbing to content production, she has worked as a production manager and executive producer for major media groups (AB Group) and various production companies (Flab, Tetra Media, Little Big Prod). She has thus acquired varied experience in all types of formats, from documentaries to news reports, including sports competitions, entertainment and talk shows.
