Cycle evening

The ImagéSanté Festival will be holding an evening event on June 19, 2025 at the Sauvenière cinema.

During this event, the Festival will present the film “Le rêve des cigognes”, a sensitive work that explores the issues surrounding maternity, the desire for a child and the care process, while questioning the human, emotional and ethical dimensions surrounding these themes. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with some of the film’s cast and crew.

Synopsis:

Based on her own experience, which she extends through the testimonies of other infertile people, director Élodie Lélu shows how Medically Assisted Procreation modifies the relationship with the body and the imaginary. After all, the MAP process constantly exposes patients to photographs in the form of ultrasound scans or captured images taken under a microscope. But what to do with these images? How do we live with these highly defined representations, which disrupt the imaginary of procreation, an act which, by its very nature, belongs to the intimacy of the body? This is the question raised by this mischievous documentary, which combines family archives, scientific images and a whole range of intriguing images that bring dreams back to the place where science gives everything (too much) to see.