LES VIES D’ANDRES / THE MULTIPLE LIVES OF ANDRES (Belgium-Switzerland, 2025, 91′)

Thursday, October 2nd, at 3:00 p.m.; Cinema Massimo, Screen 3 

Event in partnership with CGIL ? CISL ? UIL Torino

National premiere

On Thursday, October 2nd, at 3:00 p.m., on Screen 3 of Cinema Massimo, in collaboration with CGIL – CISL – UIL Torino, there will be a national premiere screening of the movie Les Vies D’Andres (Belgium-Switzerland, 2025) by directors Baptiste Janon and Remi Pons . The movie, which won the Jury Award in the National Competition at the 2025 Visions du Réel festival, reflects on the inhuman rhythms to which truck drivers are subjected today, in a dialogue with their Mexican counterpart Andrès Ugalde, portrayed by B. Traven. 

This will be followed by a discussion with Sarah Pantò (CGIL Turin) and Giacomo Falsone (worker in the Goods and Logistics sector).

Admission method : admission is reserved for invited guests. However, a number of tickets will still be available to the public and can be purchased both online and at Cinema Massimo box office.

International title: The Multiple Lives of Andres
Original title: Les vies d’Andrès
Directors: Baptiste Janon, Rémi Pons
Screenplay: Rémi Pons, Baptiste Janon
Photography: Pierre Choqueux
Editing: Karine Sudan
Production: Dok Mobile, Hélicotronc

Inspired by a B. Traven’s novel – pseudonym of a 20 th century writer whose identity remains unknown -, in which the protagonist Andrès Ugalde is a cart driver in early 20 th century Mexico, the movie depicts his contemporaries, truck drivers for a small transport company in Europe. Stuck in a race for profit, today’s “Andrès” live in an exhausting system that, over time, contributes to undermine the physical health of those who work by being continuously on the road. The documentary follows each truck driver, alternating between them with their own story to tell, from when they receive their deliveries at the company offices to the time they embark on their solitary journeys, while a female voiceover reads excerpts from Traven’s book.

Baptiste Janon (Albi, 1981), after attending the Brussels International School of Theatre, studied Movie Direction at the IAD in Belgium, where he graduated in 2008. In 2018 he directed the episode Dernière pèche for the French TV series L’heure D .

Rémi Pons (Paris, 1977) studied Movie Direction at INSAS, graduating in 2007. Since then, he has lived and worked in theatre, radio and cinema in Brussels. Since 2022, he has been teaching a radio writing course at INSAS. Les vies d’Andrès represents his first documentary for cinema.

Filmography:
Baptiste Janon: Procédure d’eloignement (sf, 2008), Quand est-ce que je les ai vus s’embrasser? (sf, doc, 2012), Dernière pèche (mlf, doc, 2018); Suzanne (sf, 2010, with Julien Monfajon).

Baptiste Janon, Rémi Pons: Les vie d’Adrès (doc, 2025).