Finished films

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    because the night

    Nov. 2023 In development Les films du Djabadjah Experimental feature film Shot in Kigali The film begins at dusk. Amdjadi Mugarura, a 34-year-old single father of two, leads a life divided between light and shadow. By day, he upholds a facade of respectability for his conservative family, heirs to a distinguished mufti. By night, he…

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    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 Renaissance conquests…

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    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

    2017 Petit Dragon / Granit films / ARTE / CANAL HORIZONS / TV5 MONDE / CNC / ELEPHANT feature-length documentary 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 to a world  waiting…

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    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 painful…

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     National Identity

    2012 Feature documentary Granit films 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 of how low our…

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    Cameroon, Autopsy of 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 France and Great-Britain. Forced labor…

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    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 French territory, including more than a thousand to…