To support the production of the film The Ministry of Hate, or the Drifts of the Republic [provisional title, release expected February 2010] by Thomas Lacoste, you can pre-purchase the DVD or become a co-producer of the film by making a donation to L'Autre association.

The creation of a Ministry of Immigration and National Identity was in itself an act of unprecedented violence. The debate on national identity opened by the government now confirms the darkest prophecies.

We all need to react, without delay. And for that, understand, understand the sequences that lead to this regression.

This film endeavors to do so, by recalling what the history of immigration is and what the characteristics of the "French melting pot" are. The origins of the French nation are indeed there, in multiculturalism. It also questions the recurrence of racist themes, especially in times when capitalism is in crisis. It revisits this hydra, the association of immigration and insecurity, constantly reborn. It finally proposes to understand the return of nationalisms in Europe and in the world, in which this ministry participates.

As you will have understood, this film is also a commitment to a number of values, simple but essential: hospitality and welcome, right of asylum, respect for others and difference, the common and the multiple, sharing and redistribution. The sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers who testify in this film provide meticulously arranged analyses to launch a necessary fight: the definitive abolition of the Ministry of Hate!

A film with the participation, among others, of historians Pap Ndiaye (EHESS), Gérard Noiriel (EHESS) and Sophie Wahnich (CNRS); anthropologists Michel Agier (EHESS), Françoise Héritier (Collège de France) and Emmanuel Terray (EHESS); sociologists Luc Boltanski (EHESS), Eric Fassin (ENS) and Laurent Mucchielli (CNRS) or philosophers Etienne Balibar (University of California) and Tzvetan Todorov (CNRS), etc...

To enable the production of this film, you can pre-purchase the DVD for 12 € (shipping included) or become a co-producer of the film (amount of your choice starting from 20 €, including the pre-purchase of the DVD): secure online payment on the site www.labandepassante.org, or by check payable to L'Autre association, 3, rue des Petites Ecuries, F-75010 Paris.