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Born in '68

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Born in ´68 is an epic drama of love, activism and family that spans 40 years of social upheaval in France.

In the turbulent spring of 1968, Catherine, Herv´ and Yves are lovers and student revolutionaries at the Sorbonne in Paris. When the police start to crack down on the protesters with violence and arrests, the trio decide to flee with their comrades and set up a commune in the French countryside.

The commune initially appears to be an idyllic paradise of left-wing politics and hippy free love, but beliefs are soon abandoned, friendships betrayed and members of the collective begin to drift away. As the sixties give way to the seventies, Catherine is left on the farm with only her two young children, Boris and Ludmilla, and fellow flower child, Caroline.

The film shifts focus for its second half, concentrating on Catherine´s grown children. Both have inherited their mother´s activism but their political ideals have taken them in very different directions. Ludmilla has embraced capitalism and is a leader of the Internet revolution. Handsome Boris has come out of the closet and is an activist with ACT UP, fighting against government indifference as the AIDS crisis becomes epidemic.

Inside Out favourites Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (Funny Felix, Crustac´s et coquillages) breathlessly transport us through the turbulence of the late 1960s to Nicolas Sarkozy´s election, creating an inspiring saga that captures how the spirit of ´68 is translated by each successive generation.