Actualités
Exarcheia, le chant des oiseaux
National Feature Film Competition – Montreal International Documentary Festival 2018 EXARCHEIA takes you on a dreamy nocturnal stroll through one of Greece’s most politically active neighborhoods, situated in the heart of Athens, just below the Acropolis. In this lively and mythical space, you meet a coterie of characters whose ideals and aspirations are in constant flux. Set against the backdrop of the economic crisis, EXARCHEIA is a poetical and polyphonic essay that dives into a place where living together is first and foremost a matter of shared speech and hopes held in suspense.
Sur les toits Havane
Nestled above a decaying district of Havana is a secret village, hidden from the clamour of the streets below. Makeshift houses, pigeon coops, pig pens, altars to the gods of Santería, laundry flapping in the breeze and improvised gardens make up the sun-bathed landscape inhabited by Arturo, Tita, Pedro, Lala, Roberto, José, Reynol, Juan, Alejandro, Maria, Reina Maria and Pedro Juan. Like many other residents in Central Havana, they have been forced upwards by the chronic shortage of housing. These rooftop dwellers live in a unique world. The only thing they have in common is their modi vivendi. From their perch atop the city, they bear witness to a society that is in the process of a major historical transformation after more than 58 years of revolutionary government.
L’islam de mon enfance
In presence of the director Nadia Zouaoui grew up in a Muslim country where religion and culture have blended together for centuries. This author film is an inner quest in a journey in the Islam of her childhood. In parallel, another quest about those who wanted to distort Islam for political purposes and created the terrorism that regulates the rate of news today. Journalist and documentary filmmaker, Nadia is fluent in four languages and is sensitive to the cultures they carry. She is a humanist, a journalist and has given herself the mission to film opinionated documentaries in the hope of building bridges between cultures, the global North and South, and between people of various origins and opinions. She is dedicated to raise critical thinking and improve dialogue for a better life together.