Documentaries
Looking for Charlie (Sky Arts, Sky 020, Monday, 8.30pm) is a poignant portrait of the survivors of the terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015.
Film-makers David André and Bruno Joucla do not employ a voiceover or go over the events of January 7, but assemble a series of interviews with family members of some of those killed by two Islamist extremists.
There is one, however, who does not want to appear on camera, the illustrator Luz (Rénald Luzier), who provides a devastating series of
drawings. Luz was late for work that day and discovered the bodies of his colleagues. “I do not want to speak of my past, nor do I want to let you film my present,” he writes. “My wife and I just want to be able to live our future.”
Some family members still struggle to comprehend the attack, especially Chloé Verlhac, wife of illustrator Tignous (Bernard Verlhac), who has had to explain
to their children what happened. “I have never looked for meaning,” she says. “There is none.”
Most incisive of all is publishing director and illustrator Riss (Laurent Sourisseau), who was shot in the shoulder. It was a collision of two worlds, he says, “One in which people can think freely, draw freely and the other in which people aren’t free.”