ISOLA

« Carried by an incandescent actress (Yilin Yang),

this disturbing film-essay questions our Western
eyes on a vertiginous contemporary misery. »
TELERAMA (FRANCE)

« An Alice in Wonderland among refugees playing

their life. »
LES INROCKS (FRANCE)

« Between reality and fiction, Isola manages to

make us feel the absurdity of a world in distress. »
LES FICHES DU CINEMA (FRANCE)

« A dark and committed film tale about the

migratory crisis in the Mediterranean. »
FRANCE CULTURE (FRANCE)

« Captivating and beautiful. »

ECRAN LARGE (FRANCE)

« At the international film and migration festival in Agadir, we talk about suffering,
despair, hope, drama, perseverance ... All these emotions are found in “Isola” by Fabianny
Deschamps. Despite an emergency shoot, a tight budget, Fabianny Deschamps has created
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a symbolic atmosphere, delicate, fascinating. “Isola”, a film about the reality of migrants.
LE MATIN (MAROCCO)
« The violence of the world, it is with intelligence and finesse that the filmmaker
reports it, that it gives it to feel obliquely, by detour, or much more bluntly. »
CRITIKAT

« French filmmaker Fabianny Deschamps‘ second feature revolves around a disoriented

Chinese migrant‘s exchanges with locals and fellow outsiders in a crisis-stricken Italian
seaside town.
Two years after her Hong Kong-set first feature, New Territories, French filmmaker
Fabianny Deschamps returns to Europe with Isola, in which a Chinese woman struggles
with survival and sanity in an unnamed Italian town caught in the maelstrom of the
migrant crisis. Pushing on with the part-documentary, part-drama approach that shaped
her 2014 debut. »
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

« “Border”. This term the director knows him well. Her first feature film, New Territories,
is also focused on this theme with the border between countries, between social classes,
between life and death, between phantasmagorical worlds ... Also present on both films,
the talented Olaf Hund, with a music in suspension, captivating.
If “everything that has a beginning has an end”, the opposite also works. When New
Territories tells death through a scandal around disappearances in China, Isola evokes
a pregnancy in the middle of migration. Rather than look at her, Fabianny Deschamps
observes the navel of humanity. »
HOUZ-MOTIK
« The shock of opposites between documentary and fiction crystallizes strongly
the human drama of immigration. »
L‘OBS

« Two years ago, ACID introduced us to New Territories, Fabianny Deschamps‘s first
feature film. In this bold and radical work, Olaf Hund‘s very Electro Acoustic Music, the
wide and suspended movements of the camera, plunged us into a hypnotic sensory
experience.
In Isola, her new feature film selected at ACID for the 2016 edition, the filmmaker
continues to build beautifully her world, formal and thematic. »
CRITIKAT
NEW TERRITORIES

« A strange and beautiful film, a reverie under

spell, sensations unpublished, a work to discover,
it is unquestionable. »
LES FICHES DU CINEMA

« An ambitious first feature film. »

TELERAMA

« This first feature film is a singular journey.

Ambitious. The images of the places crossed are
magnificent, enigmatic. Intriguing and demanding.
Olaf Hund's music is throbbing. »
PREMIERE

« An atmospheric and vehement essay-fiction. »

LE MONDE

« New territories takes us into a hypnotic and mysterious world. »

MADE BY FRENCHIES

« For her first feature, Fabianny Deschamps chooses a form and a daring theme. On
the border between Hong Kong and China, two women cross each other. One embodies
modernity, technology and the all-powerful market, the second dreams of this world
while being the representative of China‘s millennial traditions. This meeting is the pretext
for a poetic meditation with powerful images on the destiny of individuals and peoples. »
L‘USINE NOUVELLE
« New Territories, a journey into contemporary unreality.
“New Territories” is first and foremost the opportunity to discover a great director,
with a very particular universe, who as these short films (“Bonsai Stories”, 2001,
“In My bossom “, 2003” The deep end “2006 and” La Lisière “, 2009), advanced in his
career as a filmmaker. »
VISÃO (PORTUGAL)
« New territories has charm, that of
his rendering finally very plastic in a
narrative experimentation effectively
supported by a very strong musical
score signed Olaf Hund. »
FRANCE TV INFO
« This patchwork film is very strange:
fascinating or annoying, it is according
to. But original, definitely. »
L‘OBS

« Of course, there is very definitely a story underpinning Territories, which even takes
on genre dimensions. Though rarely seen, Yilin Yang‘s voiceovers as Li are absolutely
devastating. Eve Bitoun deliberately portrays her namesake as something of a cipher,
but her descent into spiritual oblivion is quite compelling (while her Fifty Shades scene is
unnecessarily off-putting). Deschamps also gives viewers a unique perspective on time-
honored practices, such as the burning of spirit money. »
LIBERTAS FILM MAGAZINE

« The end titles suggest that the film‘s subject, directly tied to the twist, is a serious, real-
life problem, though in Deschamps‘ hands the subject feels to often like it is something
contextual to the director‘s formal experiments with footage, voice and sound.
Since there are no real dialogs to speak of, the film relies heavily on the simple presence
of the actors that are on-screen, and thankfully, Bitoun is a mesmerizing presence
throughout. The standout technical contribution is the shape-shifting score of Franco-
German electronic musician Olaf Hund. »
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

« The most interesting in New Territories is that the modesty of directing is never a
hindrance to the freedom of the director‘s eye. »