On the French website, Michel David writes a very beautiful statement of belief. A translation of this statement does not do it justice, at least not if I'm the one to write it. Nevertheless, it can give an idea of our choices and vision of cinema.


"Zeugma Films exists since 1996.
I had been producing films for a few years before its creation, in different structures, always defending an original idea of cinema, with beginner filmmakers (Lucas Belvaux, Idriss Ouedraogo) and others more mature with whom one always needs to learn again, day after day (André S. Labarthe).
The films produced by Zeugma Films are documentaries, in part because the world of TV fiction is largely impenetrable. We like to think our goal is to deliver unexpected, unique, ambitious films. More importantly, films that are vital for the filmmaker to make, adventures in which they commit their souls, involvements that are there for the spectators to feel.

Films which let them think freely, which offer various keys of understanding to their eyes, some of them hidden. Films that don't ask expected questions, that flee self-indulgence and pity, that cast upon their subject a warm look, not neutral but very lucid, very loving.
The subjects don't determine our policy of production ; only the way to treat them is important to us. They are unique matches between a material, an author, a team and ourselves. It's all the better if a channel jumps aboard - and, fortunately, it does happen. With a few years' hindsight, what can be said about our catalogue ?

A few movies that deal with boarder-crossing stories (physical : a passport application, temporal : looking for a Hollywood myth and one's own past). A few directors settled in Paris, but who kept their foreign nationalities (a Venetian woman dealing with cleanliness, a Spanish author, some not-so-Belgian coworkers, a Japanese woman, a white South African, two German women, one Brasilian, an Algerian-born Jewish French woman with Hungarian origins, and even a Frenchman). They all drag their culture along, their humour, their way of being, of living, of thinking, weighing the world in the wake of contradiction and political incorrectness.
A lot of women and a few men, true men. Movies where sound has its rightful place : languages of course, but also noises - cleaning machines in an almost silent film -, the voices - those full of anguish, calling Aids Info Service for help ; those, penetrating, of Intelligence Services inspectors -, original soundtracks and silence. A fine, husky, sometimes painful humour. Unique films, limited in numbers, because we need time to love them, like their spectators do."

Michel DAVID