Like thousands of people who, every day, leave their native lands, Abdu, a young musician from Mali, has decided to go to Europe.
The Kurdish lover is Oktay, a man of Kurdish origin with whom I share my life. We have been drifting through a devastated region brought to a standstill by war and economic misery. How do people manage to co-exist in this place? This is the question posed by the film. Here we live in close proximity to one another, in a tightly woven network of geographical and social ties. Loving someone can become confused with…
The Kabyls exist primarily through speech. Each gesture, each instant of their daily life flows into a verse, a metaphor, a proverb… After all, in the mountainous fortress that they’re patrons of, oratory prowess is the most prevalent activity.
The Themerson Polish couple were part of the avant-garde current in the middle of the 20th century. Very creative in different kinds of media like movie, litterature, painting, they deeply influenced lots of artists – like Roman Polanski for example – by their very singular poetic world.
6o years after the genocide, the orphans of the Shoah testify.