For the past ten years, the Radio Live project has brought young people together on stage to discuss questions of commitment and identity. For the 2025 edition of the Avignon Festival, the radio producer and journalist Aurélie Charon has handed the microphone to individuals from France, Syria, Gaza, Ukraine, Lebanon, Rwanda... Each night, in groups of three, they share how the violence of war has upended their personal, familial, social, artistic, and activist spaces.
It is a journalistic investigation that reinvents itself with each performance through live drawing, video and live music. But it is also a reflection on friendship as a collective force, and an invitation to gather with those who are different from us.
Live visual design:
Gala Vanson
Graphic identity:
Amélie Bonnin
Set design:
Pia de Compiègne
Lighting design, video and stage management:
Thomas Cottereau
CREW:
Director: Aurélie Charon, Gala Vanson, Amélie Bonnin. With Amir Hassan, Yannick Kamanzi, Oksana Leuta, Hala Rajab and Anna Leuta
Producer: Mathilde Gamon
Cinematographer: Thibault de Chateauvieux
Editor: Céline Ducreux / sound Benoit Laur, video — Thibault de Chateauvieux
Sound: Emma Prat
Director
Aurélie Charon
Aurélie Charon is a producer at France Culture for L'Avant-scène and coordinator of the radio creative space L'Expérience. A graduate from Sciences Po Paris, Paris III and New York University, she has been directing since 2011 documentary series on activism, commissioned by Radio France, including Underground Democracy in Gaza, Tehran, and Algiers.
She has been involved in a long-term work on French youth with Une série française (2015 France Inter), Jeunesse 2016 (France Culture) and the film La Bande des Français directed by Amélie Bonnin for France 3 (2017). She recounts her travels in the book C’était pas mieux avant, ce sera mieux après, published by L'Iconoclaste. She created with Mathilde Gamon radio live production structure that accompanies Radio live shows and workshops around self-narratives.
Director
Gala Vanson
Trained at the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Gala Vanson’s practice is at the crossroads of painting, writing and graphic design. She collaborates as a designer with Le BAL, the national scene Châteauvallon-Liberté, Radio France or the Centre Pompidou.
Inspired by documentary form and social themes, her work links the intimate to the collective in search of common languages. She has published the album Catcheur d'Amour, published by Seuil Jeunesse, and the comic strip La Boucherie parisienne published by L'Association.
