Projection and discussion
Autour du film « Vers la tendresse »
13 Feb 2022
The event is over
"One great lesson from the research sessions for La Cinémathèque Idéale des Banlieues du Monde (The Ideal Cinematheque of the Suburbs of the World) is the absence of female voices during all these years. The majority of voices are the voices of men from the Maghreb, which can be explained, at least partly, in sociological terms. It is important to reflect with these women on the difficulty of imposing their own voices, to offer them a specific forum here, to manifest a new sisterhood, to invent the next stage together." Alice Diop
Films projected:
Josza Anjembe, Le Bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux (The Blue, White and Red of my Hair, France, 2016, 21 min). Shortlisted for the César for best short film, in 2018
Seyna, a seventeen-year-old girl of Cameroon heritage is passionate about the history of France, the country where she was born and which she is deeply in love with. Having passed her baccalaureate and soon to come of age, Seyna has only one desire: to acquire French nationality. But her father, Amidou, is fiercely opposed to this.
Alice Diop, Vers la tendresse (Toward Tenderness, France, 2015, 39 min). César for best short film, in 2017
This film is an intimate exploration of the male domain of a suburban city. As we follow a group of wandering young men, we walk the length and breadth of a world where female bodies are no more than ghostlike and virtual silhouettes.
Fatima Kaci, Terre d’ombres (Land of Shadows, France, 2021, 38 min)
"Relegated to the middle of a suburban industrial zone, the Muslim cemetery in Bobigny dates from the colonial period and blends different worlds and different temporalities. I set out to encounter rituals, the voices and presence of the people visiting the cemetery. Out of the warp and weft of words, the empty silences, flashes of memory rise up that are shared between France and Algeria." FK
When
2pm - 4:30pm
Where
Alice Diop, Vers la tendresse, 2015
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*Alice Diop