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- A clear-eyed look at how everyday life and the accompanying humdrum tasks go on despite the threat of violence at any moment.
- Sylvana lives in Lebanon, Mohammed in New York, but when they are together, they like to go for walks. Sylvana is in a wheelchair and Mohammed is blind, so she guides the way as he pushes. They talk about the constant lack of autonomy they experience in daily life, and how the obstacles they face are not only physical but above all societal. When Sylvana was a child, other children were forbidden to play with her for fear that her disability was contagious. Although highly educated, Mohammed was unemployed for two years as a result of discrimination. In separate interviews the two talk about their childhood, which they spent in institutions, and their current position in society. Filmmaker Maher Abi Samra followed their meetings over the course of a year, from a visit to a museum in Beirut, where they learn about standards of beauty among the ancient Greeks and Phoenicians and the desire for aesthetic perfection, to a stroll in Paris. Over tea, they talk about their endless, draining struggle for equal treatment. Is it your disability that holds you back, or the barriers raised by society?
- Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo's feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the film and interviews with personalities, the filmmaker retraces the journey of a major work - from the events of the Algiers Casbah (1956-1957) to the presentation of the Lion of 'Or causing the anger of the French delegation in Venice - which left its mark as much in the history of cinema as in that of Algeria. The Battle of Algiers, the imprint is interested in the relationship between history and cinema in the work of Gillo Pontecorvo, showing the reciprocity between reality and fiction such as the capture of Yacef Saadi for example, seen by the television news of the era and by an extract from the film. The documentary underlines the "absolute quest for the truth" desired by Pontecorvo, collecting stories from both Algerians such as the work written by Saadi in 1962, and French stories through the oral testimonies of the paratroopers, in order to construct a factual story beyond all censorship. The torture used by the French army and shown in the film was one of the reasons for its ban until 2004. Finally, Cheikh Djemaï questions the historical legacy left by The Battle of Algiers in the collective Algerian consciousness. He notes that fiction has supplanted history, on the predominant role of Algiers compared to the rest of the country in the war led by the FLN for example, or even on the place of Ali La Pointe, a figure of the Resistance whose the symbolic importance rests entirely on the film.
- Assassinated during WWII, Jean Zay (1904-1944) nevertheless left a lasting legacy in French political history. A great reformer, he particularly helped to structure the French film industry to ensure its sustainability and its influence.
- A vibrant tribute to Maurice Cullaz, nicknamed "Smoothie" by Louis Armstrong, who dedicated his life to defend all black music.