Michel Toesca

Director

Michel Toesca is an independent filmmaker, who was born in Nice in 1960. He started his career in Paris. In 2008, he moved to Saorge with his family, in a mountainous region, near the sea and the Italian border. He continued his work there, still as passionate and enthusiastic as ever.

To the Four Winds is his fifth feature film.

Filmography

Feature Film

Libre, SaNoSi Productions, 2018
Démocratie Zéro6, Mandrake Films, 2015
Le Village, Wake Film, 2011
Per Sempre, MT Films, 2008
J’irai cracher sur vos tongs, Elabel Productions, 2005

Short Film 
2016
D8/ 2-6GENÈSE MT FILMS
RAPPORTS OU PAS L’ECLAT//ECF
CECI EST UN FILM MT FILMS

2015
FAIRE COUPLE 1, 2 et 3, L’ECLAT/ECF
VU DANS LES NUAGES (2), MT FILMS
SWEAT DREAM, MT FILMS

2014 : INVISIBLE L’ECLAT, D8/01 MT FILMS

2012 : PER SEMPRE (2) MT FILMS
VU DANS LES NUAGES MT FILMS L’EAU DES PIEDS 2 MT FILMS

2011: WEDDING MT FILMS

2009: WELCOME EN FRANCE C.A.A.M L’EAU DES PIEDS MT FILMS

2000: HAPPY NEW YEAR MT FILMS

1999: BRULURES CONFLUENCES

1998: DIALOGUE 1 et 2, MT FILMS

1997 REFLETS MT FILMS

1995: JVE PAS KTUMFILM MT FILMS

1994: DANS UN GRAND LIT CARRÉ ULTRAMARINE

1990: LA BOURSE ET LA VIE (LA SEPT/ARTE – TÉLÉMA)

1989: FAUST (LA SEPT/ARTE – TÉLÉMA)
LES ELIXIRS D’HOFFMANN (LA SEPT/ARTE – TÉLÉMA)
TARATATATA MT FILMS

1987: GOLDEN DAWN (LA SEPT/ARTE – TÉLÉMA)

1983: MUTHOS CINQ ET CINQ FILMS
Television
1997: ESPACES ET TERRITOIRE (ARTE) LES FILM D’ICI
1993-94: EXTÉRIEUR NUIT (FRANCE 3) FLACH FILMS.
1992: CINÉMA DE POCHE (ARTE)
1989-92: DYNAMO (LA7-ARTE) TELEMA
Clip
2006 : MUAFIA (Hydra) FZM – WAGRAM
2007 : BLONDE PETROLE (Alice Carel) RESERVOIR PROD
Various
2002: Montage image du film documentaire MIMI de Claire Simon  Maya Film
2000: Ingénieur du son du film 800 KM DE DIFFÉRENCE de Claire Simon, Agat Films
1998: Création sonore de OBJETS D’AMOUR de Claire Simon Théâtre de la commune

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Another way - EP1

03/11/2023

Episode 1 - Fencing
2023 - France - 36 minutes - french and english subtitles
Marion and Cédric are looking for a new place to live, and funds, while continuing their farming work, and malicious politicians and citizens are doing their utmost to prevent the emergence of their associative and solidarity project.
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Another way - EP2

03/11/2023

Épisode 2 - Walking
2023 - France - 39 minutes - French and English subtitles
Pursue the associative project and find another location after a town hall prevented the idea from seeing the light of day. Approach Emmaüs to make the project viable and launch the construction of a henhouse with the primary aim of providing for the needs of the community.
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Another way - EP3

03/11/2023

Episode 3 - Hatching
2023 - France - 34 minutes - English and French subtitles
Diverse energies coalesce around a flagship idea to lay the foundations. The world's first Emmaus agricultural community is born. Cédric divests himself of his belongings, frees himself from the slope and sets off.
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Another way - EP4

03/11/2023

Episode 4 – Make concessions
2023 - France - 30 minutes - English and French subtitles
Companions live, learn and work on the farm. The community tames its impatience and learns to know how to lose, sometimes with the help of intelligent resources and perseverance, until the project finally opens up new perspectives.
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Another way - EP5

03/11/2023

Episode 5 - Crossing
2023 - France - 29 minutes - English and French subtitles
A storm devastates the Roya Valley, sweeping away houses, roads, bridges and a host of life projects, calling everything into question. The entire valley and the new Emmaus community come through and emerge from this destructive and revealing ordeal.
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Another way - EP6

03/11/2023

Episode 6 - Live
2023 - France - 25 minutes - English and French subtitles
The valley and the Emmaus community rebuild with determination and solidarity after the storm. The project finally comes to fruition, and the companions move into their new home after three years of work, joy and madness that have made possible the utopia of being able to live, very concretely, in ANOTHER WAY.
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Another way - Bonus

03/11/2023

Bonus episode - The spirit of the law
2023 - France - 30 minutes - French and English subtitles
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW retraces five years of proceedings against the State, and reveals that the prosecutor's relentless pursuit of Cédric Herrou - who has done nothing but help his fellow man - masked the fact that the State was in the illegality. It was the government's failings that prompted him, the citizen, to make up for the state's shortcomings.
After taking his case to the French Constitutional Council, and even considering taking it to the European Court of Human Rights, the courts eventually ruled in his favor.
In a 1960s book entitled "L'État et le citoyen" (The State and the Citizen) published by the Club Jean Moulin, we can read: "If awareness of freedoms is reborn tomorrow, it will not be because of a law of nature, but because a certain number of men have wanted it. The reconstitution of democracy will not be a gift from heaven, but the product of a systematic effort of imagination, lucidity and honesty on the part of citizens".
The actions of Cedric and his lawyers in "The spirit of the law" concretely reflect this awareness of freedoms.
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Another way - French trailer

10/10/2023 à 20:00

After five years of prosecution for the "crime of solidarity", chicken farmer Cédric Herrou had the "principle of fraternity" recognized in the French Constitution. Since then, he has changed his world, dispossessing himself of his land to turn it into common land and founding, with Marion Gachet, the Emmaüs Roya community (the first agricultural Emmaüs community in the world), which opens up the possibility of offering a living environment to precarious people in any situation, even "irregular" ones. ANOTHER WAY tells this story.
ANOTHER WAY is a response to all those who prefer to build walls rather than bridges. A story on a local scale and universal in its human, social, political and ecological dimensions.
It's a joyful, thrilling adventure, driven by the impressive resilience of the characters who bring it to life through their hard work, their sense of resourcefulness, their unshakeable will and their inventive courage... Characters perpetually regenerated by an analysis of society based on their situation, full of intelligence, lucidity, irony and even humor, about a region, a country, a continent, a world and an era.
An eco-political, solidarity-based and fraternal success story that traces the invention of a "different" way of thinking, living and doing things in a border valley, the Roya, which flows into the Mediterranean between France and Italy.

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To the four winds - French version

21/09/2023 à 00:00

France - 2018 - 100 min - French version (french subtitles only). Cédric Herrou, a farmer in the Roya valley, has seen his daily life turned upside down by the arrival of refugees. He and other local residents decided to welcome and help the migrants who knocked on their door or crossed the valley. Filmmaker Michel Toesca has followed the journey of a citizen who, despite the legal risks involved, stands up and resists to ensure that human rights are respected, guided by the inventive and friendly spirit of the "Pantäi Niçois" and good farming sense.

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Another way - English trailer

19/10/2023

After five years of prosecution for the "crime of solidarity", chicken farmer Cédric Herrou had the "principle of fraternity" recognized in the French Constitution. Since then, he has changed his world, dispossessing himself of his land to turn it into common land and founding, with Marion Gachet, the Emmaüs Roya community (the first agricultural Emmaüs community in the world), which opens up the possibility of offering a living environment to precarious people in any situation, even "irregular" ones. ANOTHER WAY tells this story.
ANOTHER WAY is a response to all those who prefer to build walls rather than bridges. A story on a local scale and universal in its human, social, political and ecological dimensions.
It's a joyful, thrilling adventure, driven by the impressive resilience of the characters who bring it to life through their hard work, their sense of resourcefulness, their unshakeable will and their inventive courage... Characters perpetually regenerated by an analysis of society based on their situation, full of intelligence, lucidity, irony and even humor, about a region, a country, a continent, a world and an era.
An eco-political, solidarity-based and fraternal success story that traces the invention of a "different" way of thinking, living and doing things in a border valley, the Roya, which flows into the Mediterranean between France and Italy.

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To the four winds - French Trailer

Cédric Herrou, a farmer in the Roya valley, has seen his daily life turned upside down by the arrival of refugees. Together with other local residents, they decided to welcome and help migrants who knocked on their door or crossed the valley. Director Michel Toesca follows the journey of a citizen who, despite the legal risks involved, stands up and resists to ensure that human rights are respected, guided by the inventive and convivial spirit of the "Pantäi Niçois" and good farming sense.

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To the four winds - English subtitles

21/09/2023 à 00:00

France - 2018 - 100min - English version (french with english subtitles). Cédric Herrou, a farmer in the Roya valley, has seen his daily life turned upside down by the arrival of refugees. He and other local residents decided to welcome and help the migrants who knocked on their door or crossed the valley. Filmmaker Michel Toesca has followed the journey of a citizen who, despite the legal risks involved, stands up and resists to ensure that human rights are respected, guided by the inventive and friendly spirit of the "Pantäi Niçois" and good farming sense.

      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      

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