Round table: The Shikoku pilgrimage, “Japanese Compostela”?

As part of the “Des chemins et des hommes” cycle
The Shikoku pilgrimage, “Japanese Compostela”?
Round-table discussion: Extracts from film 88 punctuated by an interview with the director,

Moderated by Frédéric Rochet, Director of Forum104

On Japan’s Shikoku island, a 1,200-kilometer circular itinerary links 88 temples, following in the footsteps of the 9th-century Buddhist monk Kûkai. Émilie Berteau walked it in 42 days, and made a film about the pilgrimage, shot with a subjective camera. She will be showing us excerpts from this film, and will talk about her adventure, which was both a physical and spiritual odyssey.

→ Émilie Berteau is an author and director. After training in art history, museology and philosophy at the École du Louvre and then the Sorbonne, she studied cinema in Beirut and a Master’s degree in documentary cinema in Paris. Her first feature-length documentary, 88, about the Shikoku pilgrimage, won awards at several international festivals.

At the end of the round table :

• Organizers’ stands
• A glass of friendship