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North
North 2023 ESSAY FILM STUDIO – LODZ LAB A sequence shot by plane from the African coast to the shores of Europe. When you have the privilege of a Western passport, it takes 9min47s. But for the Sudanese writer in exile Youssif Halliem Kiddo, whom we listen to during this flight, the crossing of the…
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Xiheng Jie
Xiheng Jie 2022 Short film ShanShan films & Berlin Biennale #12 Short film shot in Guangzhou (China), ShanShan films & Berlin Biennale #12. Mister Cheng can’t see us so we won’t see him. But we see what he can’t see. An old street of Guangzhou soon to be destroyed, a Man, a Dream.
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Abderrahmane Sissako, Beyond Territories
Abderrahmane Sissako, Beyond Territories 2017 feature-length documentary Petit Dragon / Granit films / ARTE / CANAL HORIZONS / TV5 MONDE / CNC / ELEPHANT To be somewhere precise yet stand nowhere at all, to embody one’s convictions, yet never miss the essential, to rise up and be present at the critical moment, to bear witness…
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Afterwards
Afterwards 2014 short film Granitfilms Awarded at Corto di Donne (Naples) and Zagreb (Women film festival).RCB Bejaïa – AFLAM (Marseille) – Setif – Kaliber35 (Munich) – Ljubljana (Migrant films) A few days before her death, a very old woman tries to remember her past. Alzheimer allows her to reinvent swathes of her existence, the most…
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National Identity
National Identity 2012 Feature documentary Granit films In development with the support of CNC, Ile de France region, South Region & Pays de Loire Region A FILM ON INSTITUTIONAL RACISM If we fail to consider the plight of foreigners, if we fail to perceive what our laws can result in, we begin to lose sight…
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Cameroon, Autopsy of Independence
Cameroon, Autopsy of an Independence 2008 History documentary film, 52 mn co-written et co-directed with Gaëlle Le Roy Program33 / France 5 / TSR / RTBF. Audience Award, Festival International du Film d’Histoire de Pessac. Right after Germany’s defeat during the first World War, the Society of Nations (SDN) placed Kamerun under the trusteeship of…
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No comment, the land where one never arrives
No comment: the land where one never arrives 2024 Short film16 millimètres BFC Production Three years after the passing of the so-called Pasqua laws and less than ten years after the introduction of compulsory visas for nationals of former French colonies, what about the repression of immigration? Since 1993, 80,000 people have been expelled from…
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After BabelLooking for Batoutos
After Babel Looking for Batoutos 2024 feature film, Momento! Co-written with Patrick Chamoiseau In development with the support of CNC, Ile de France region, South Region & Pays de Loire Region Drawing inspiration from the vision of Caribbean poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant, After Babel embarks us into six immersive chapters that weave together…
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Colonial Remix
Colonial Remix A film andan Immersive Sound and Video Installation In Development (and potentially, a book and an exhibition) Through a rhizome of works of art from Europe, Africa and the Americas, Colonial Remix proposes the construction of a sound box in which reverberates the history of the colonies and their fantasies, from the first…
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Towards the night
Towards the night Nov. 2023 In development Les films du Djabadjah Experimental feature film Shot in Kigali The film begins at dusk. From behind, a young man stops a motorbike taxi, climbs into the back after putting on the red helmet and drives off into the heights of the city at sunset.He gets off at…
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THE ECHO
The echo Film essay Editor : Djamel Kerkar A little over 30 years ago, still a teenager, I borrowed a camera for the first time to archive images with my best friend of the house I grew up in and which I had to leave. An unusual, very uncomfortable Parisian house filled with art objects,…
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MARY AND JIBRIL
Mary and Jibril FEATURE NARRATIVE rewriting stage It’s the story of crazy love. Of recognition and rejection. Of a passion thwarted by the political and societal climate. By shame and things left unsaid too. Mary is Parisian, Jibril (يلِِجْبر, the archangel Gabriel in the Koran) is Dakarois. Their story begins in the depths of the…