In the Open

Guillaume Massart

IndieLisboa 2018 • Silvestre

France, Documentário, 2017, 146′

On a Corsican island about 130 men are detained in what is the only “open prison” in France. A place that receives mostly pedophiles approaching the end of the sentence. The director invades this strange territory and surprisingly meets several men who want to talk to him.

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