The French expression “faire avec” translates both as ‘making do’ (as in, working within limitations) and - in a literal sense - ‘making with’. This double meaning is a perfect analogy for filmmaker Éric Baudelaire's creative approach; finding creative ways to work within one's own reality, and filmmaking as something necessarily collaborative. The director's films are often made in collaboration with the people whose experiences they examine – filmmakers and revolutionaries, teenage students, revolutionaries and terrorists – all of whom challenge the state institutions that assume their right to define reality.  Faire avec… is thus the title for a programme that praises these partnerships with the subjects, while acknowledging another form of partnership; that of the team behind the films. Éric Baudelaire "makes cinema with" director of photography Claire Mathon and editor Claire Atherton. From this creative triangle, three films have been produced over the last decade, all of which are now being presented at Porto/Post/Doc: Also Known as Jihadi (2017), Un film dramatique (2019) and, most recently, Une fleur à la bouche (2022). Faire avec… is therefore a programme celebrating friendships and collaboration, which is why, in addition to the presentation of three films made by six hands, two major works from the history of cinema will be shown, both having inspired (and still inspiring) them: D'est (1993), by Chantal Akerman, and Stalker (1979), by Andrei Tarkovski. As part of this programme, Eric Baudelaire will also present a masterclass in which he will explain his collaborative working methods.

Éric Baudelaire, originally trained in political science, boasts an oeuvre comprising seven feature films and several shorts. His work is based on research as a political and poetic tool, used to challenge existing power structures through cinema that explores – and is created at – the intersection of reality and its documentation. This ethos intersects with those of Atherton, who edited all of Chantal Akerman's films from the mid-1980s onwards, and Mathon, who has regularly shot films by Céline Sciamma, Alain Guiraudie, Maïwenn, Alice Diop, Pablo Larraín, Mati Diop and Louis Garrel.