Dernier maquis

"Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche anchors very political questions – religion, immigration, the proletariat – in film images of striking beauty. He reinvents naturalism and surpasses it by adding narrative, legend and mythology to it. He is one of the first to renew the approach to these questions in these regions by proposing an extremely powerful and poetic form of cinema. In Dernier maquis, the very plastic red colour of the factory pallets, his aesthetic sense, his confidence in the formal power of his film to evoke the alienation of the working class, make me think of Pasolini." AD 

Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Dernier Maquis (Last Maquis, France, 2001, 83 min) 
With: Salim Ameur-Zaïmeche, Abel Jafri, Sylvain Roume, Christian Milia-Darmezin, Larbi Zekkour, Mamadou Koita, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche 

Preceded by: 

Mohamed Collective, Le Garage (The Garage) (France, 1979, 23 min) 
A short fictional documentary in which young people film their everyday lives and their friends. The film is shot around the "Garage", a place the young people have acquired in the city in order to be able to meet up somewhere other than in the street, to have a space to themselves, a place to organise meetings, various educational activities, get-togethers and celebrations. 

 
Session followed by an encounter with Alice Diop, Mohamed Salah Azzouzi and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, moderated by Romain Lefebvre, critic, notably for the Débordements review.