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Do Animals Have Rights ?

director: Martin Blanchard

original title: Les animaux ont-ils des droits ?

country: France

year: 2016

running time: 90 min.

synopsis

Can animals defend their rights in court? Symbolic film sequences frame philosophical and cultural-historical searching for the roots of today’s position of farm animals as products of the food industry and the attempt to give them equal rights in the context of new scientific discoveries and political struggles in the EU.

biography

Martin Blanchard (1969) studied journalism and lives in Paris. He has made a number of notable longitudinal documentaries, including about opera singers, and people with autistic spectrum disorder.

more about film

director:	Martin Blanchard
producer:	Matthieu Belghiti
script:	Marianne Cramer, Martin Blanchard
photography:	Martin Blanchard, Isabelle Razavet
editing:	Adrien Dominique-Dreyfus, Jean Ousmane
music:	Laurent Ferlet
sound:	Nicolas Schlomoff, Théo Caradec, Matthieu Cochin, Bruno Lagoarde, Nadège Feyrit

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