Ruptures: Screening and Q&A

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Join us for a screening of the French documentary Ruptures (2021) and Q&A with Economics and Geography student Gabriel Bonammy.

Screening Room G.04

We are delighted to invite you to a screening of Ruptures, winner of the Coup de Coeur du Jury award at the Cannes International Ecological and Social Film Festival 2021.Ruptures is the story of a year that changed the lives of a group of young people from the Grandes Ecoles. They all had their destiny mapped out for them: dream job, company car, and a good salary. But all of them, in the space of a year, broke with that path. This documentary follows them through their sometimes difficult decisions, their often painful breaks and their courageous choice to live in accordance with their convictions, whatever the cost. A change of course that is increasingly common among the young elite, and which creates many societal ruptures. Directed by Arthur Gosset and with the help of Hélène Cloitre, the documentary aims to share what more and more young people from the Grandes Écoles, and all over France, feel in the face of the ecological and social emergency.This screening will be followed by a Q&A with student Gabriel Bonammy, who translated the documentary from French into English, and has been working closely with director Arthur Gosset to organise nearly 200 screenings for more than 25,000 students across Europe since the documentary's release.The event is co-organised with Institut Français Écosse in Edinburgh, and the film will be shown in French with English subtitles.

<h2>About Ruptures</h2>Aurélie, Maxime, Hélène, Emma and Romain are graduates of Polytechnique, Sciences Po, Centrale or business schools. They have made a radical choice: to give up the future they were promised for a life they consider more compatible with the environmental and societal issues of our time. This film tells their story. Far from being anecdotal, this documentary explores a fundamental movement. Since 2019, tens of thousands of students have been questioning a system in which they no longer see themselves: unbridled capitalism and companies considered too polluting. <a href="https://www.ruptures-le-film.fr/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Find out more about Ruptures on the project's French website</a>

About the guest speaker Gabriel Bonammy Raised between France and the UK, I’m currently studying Economics and Geography at the University of St Andrews. I discovered RUPTURES fortuitously and thought that sharing its generational message with UK university students was self-evident.I have a particular interest for sustainability issues and their intersection with contemporary economic structures. In this context, part of the work I do is related to institutional sustainability, namely working on the University of St Andrews’ strategy for carbon neutrality. About the director Arthur GossetWhen I joined the French engineering school Centrale Nantes in 2017, I co-founded “Together for Earth”, a student organisation dedicated to the ecological cause, which now has nearly 50 centers throughout France. I specialised in bioengineering, before taking a gap year to shoot RUPTURES. I did my final year at Imperial College London in environmental engineering, during which I edited the documentary in my free time. The documentary was released in September 2021 and since then nearly 200 screenings have been organized, mainly in higher education establishments, for more than 25,000 students.

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