Shine a light on the darkness
Duration
Year
Topics
Language
Subtitles
French,
German,
English
52 min
2025
Lithuanian, English
80 years after the end of World War II, what remains?
Candice Savoyat retraces her family's footsteps. First to Chemnitz, Germany, where her maternal grandmother was born to a Polish Jewish father, before fleeing to France. Then to Mauthausen, Austria, where her paternal great-grandfather, who had joined the Resistance, was deported.
By connecting these two family histories, she brings them into dialogue with the present, gathering the voices of strangers met along the way.
Created by Candice Savoyat
Music Amédée de Murcia
Mixing Jules Wysocki
Translation Céline Gay
Production A Stim Matter
With the support of the City of Geneva, the FSRC, the Loterie Romande, and Phonurgia Nova as part of its annual support program for radio and sound projects
Candice Savoyat
Candice Savoyat is a radio columnist, sound artist, and trainer who lives on the border between France and Switzerland. She produces audio documentaries exploring links between individual and collective memory, past and present, migration and borders.
In 2020, she was selected in Radio Bascule's call for projects with her podcast Voyages en messagerie, an autobiographical project about the smartphone's intimacy, built from sent voice messages. She later collaborated with several Swiss cultural institutions producing audio pieces and series.
In 2024, she created Shine a light on the darkness, a sound documentary awarded the Audience Prize at the SONHOR Festival 2026 in Bern, Switzerland. The piece is also partly autobiographical as she connects traces of her ancestors' histories about the Second World War.
Trained in France at Phonurgia Nova and Longueur d'Ondes, she also leads radio and podcast workshops for a wide range of audiences.
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