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When the first body of a wild boar to die of African swine fever was found on Belgian soil in 2018, life changed for Guy and the hunters in Breux. This small French village of 300 inhabitants, close to the Belgian border, is in the "white zone". In this area, the French government has ordered local hunters to eradicate the wild boar population to limit the risk of the virus spreading. "We've gone from hunters to killers", Guy laments.
From the story of his nightmares to the unprecedented hunt for wild boar, Honneurs au gibier unfurls a documentary framework that takes poetic and aural detours into notions of borders, animality, predation and death...
Directed and recorded by Némo Camus
Brussels Podcast Festival / 2023 - Prix Documentaire
Translation by Anna Muchin
When the first body of a wild boar to die of African swine fever was found on Belgian soil in 2018, life changed for Guy and the hunters in Breux. This small French village of 300 inhabitants, close to the Belgian border, is in the "white zone". In this area, the French government has ordered local hunters to eradicate the wild boar population to limit the risk of the virus spreading. "We've gone from hunters to killers", Guy laments.
From the story of his nightmares to the unprecedented hunt for wild boar, Honneurs au gibier unfurls a documentary framework that takes poetic and aural detours into notions of borders, animality, predation and death...
Directed and recorded by Némo Camus
Brussels Podcast Festival / 2023 - Prix Documentaire
Translation by Anna Muchin