FREE WHEEL

PRODUCED DOCUMENTARY. 52 MINS

Ushuaïa TV award at the What a Trip ! Festival

He survived one of the darkest nights in recent memory. He came out paraplegic. Together with his wife and an old friend, he set himself an impossible goal: to climb Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair. Not a film about disability. A film about resilience, love, and the stubborn refusal to stop living at full force.

INFORMATION

CATEGORY TV DOCUMENTARY

STATUS PRODUCED

YEAR 2025

FORMAT 52 MINS

BROADCASTERS TF1+, USHUAÏA TV, UPTRACK

Synopsis

On 13 November 2015, Pierre is at the Bataclan. He makes it out alive, but his life shifts entirely. Paraplegic, he must relearn everything: the gestures of daily life, his relationship with his own body, the space he takes up in a world not built for him.

But Pierre is not the type to stop. With Myriam, his wife, and Nicolas, their old friend, he decides to set himself an absurd and magnificent goal: to climb Kilimanjaro. From a wheelchair.

Free Wheel does not glorify performance. It does not turn Pierre into a superhero. It follows three ordinary human beings through an extraordinary adventure, with their doubts, their exhaustion, their moments of grace and their laughter on the edge of the abyss.

As we approach the tenth anniversary of the attacks, this documentary produced by Troublemakers Originals in collaboration with Wheeled World is a necessary reminder: do not forget the horror, but tell also what some people have built on its ruins. A story of pain, love, and an extraordinary will to live.