As a child, I climbed up on a stool to reach the balcony so as not to lose any of the show displayed in my street in Casablanca. On Saturday, our day of rest, the wandering musicians would come under our windows to collect a few coins. Amongst them the Black Gnawas with their multicolored costumes, their big drum hanging from their neck, and their hat whirling on top of their head, at the same time frightening and fascinating. Later, as a teenager, my ear glued to the radio. I guesse... more

"Foreigners" is an animated documentary about foreigners who live in London. Based on interviews with ten young people from all over the world who live in the city, the film pieces together vignettes from multiple points of view that reveal London as an international metropolis that is both exciting and alienating. The interviews suggest a fresh look at contemporary English culture, and raise more fundamental questions about cultural differences and human nature.

"Ellis Island", the film, is a short audio-visual piece of work shot in the surroundings of what used to be called the “immigrants’ squat”, close to the cross-Channel harbor and the former Cherbourg seaport. "Ellis Island" questions the condition and the place of the immigrant through a reflection on “biopower”; its starting point is the following concern: the way a society can create weak human beings such as “immigrants”. Homesickness, lack of future, and emptiness of presen... more

How does the brains of the Soviet regime, an academician, the father of the hydrogen bomb, an outstanding intellectual for whom even in the Kremlin, all doors were open become an irreconcilable champion of human rights, prisoners of conscience, and an internationally renowned enemy of this system? The film "My Husband Andrey Sakharov" answers this question in an intriguing yet subdued, even intimate form: by presenting the views of witnesses to those times and Sakharov’s colleagues. His widow Yelen... more

Does everybody have the right to be beautiful? Miss Landmine is an art project that raises awareness of landmine issues and challenges traditional perceptions of disabled people. On the heels of a successful event in Africa, theater director Morten Traavik has now turned to Cambodia for the next edition of his controversial beauty pageant for landmine survivors. Faced with cries of sexism, exploitation, and a conservative Buddhist culture, Traavik seeks out new expressions of beauty in an increasingl... more

"X-Mission" explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest extraterritorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camps as a case in point, the video engages with the different discourses —legal, symbolic, urban, mythological, historical—that give meaning to this exceptional space. According to International Law, the Palestinian refugee represents indeed the exception within the exception.

A celebration of perseverance and rebirth through the arts, this inspiring documentary follows a group of New Orleans teens as they stage a revival of the hurricane-themed musical Once on this Island.