ANNE POIRET

FRANCE | 2017 | 52'

During the months before the fall of Aleppo, we gained exclusive access to Staffan de Mistura, the UN’s special envoy for Syria and symbolic representative of the international community. We followed him at work as he tried to rouse the UN into action and stop the Russian-backed bombardment. A rare and fascinating look at process of diplomacy, when an institution’s espoused values collides with realpolitik.

Anne Poiret is a filmmaker and investigative broadcast journalist based in Paris. She's been working in both current event shows and long form documentaries for the past 16 years, and won the most prestigious journalism award in France in 2007 – the Albert Londres Prize for her film shot in Sri Lanka "Muttur: a Crime Against Humanitarians" (52’). Anne has often filmed the traumas of the neither peace, nor war situations in the Middle East, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Iraq.