Quartiers Lointains : Season 5
SELF IMAGE
What image do we have of ourselves when our family history is not fully passed on to us? When we return, years later, to the ground of our childhood? When we do not match the criteria imposed by society? When we want to free ourselves from the image others have of us? It has often been said: the image we have of ourselves is often tied to the images that represent us in cinema, on television and in the media. Through varied approaches, the filmmakers of Quartiers Lointains’ 5th season take hold of this question in an intimate and moving way.
Our patron: Lucien JEAN-BAPTISTE
Travelling short-film programme from North to South of the hemisphere, with patron Lucien JEAN-BAPTISTE, Martinican actor and director (Ma première étoile, Il a déjà ses yeux): “We need this kind of initiative. We need to shift imaginaries, and it is with this kind of event and this kind of film, with all these fine stories, that we will be able to move French cinema forward.”
The films
Nulle part by Askia Traoré
Fiction - 2014 - France - 25 min
Synopsis
A funeral. He has not been back to the neighbourhood of his childhood for 20 years. The past resurfaces...
Biography
Born in Beirut (Lebanon), Askia Traoré grew up in La Duchère, on the outskirts of Lyon (France). After working for several years as an exhibitor, he settled in Paris and moved into film production. In 2010 he directed his first short film, Nola.
Film career
Festival CinéSud, France
Retour à Genoa City by Retour à Genoa City
Documentary - 2017 - France - 29 min
Synopsis
Grandma and her brother Uncle Thomas have been watching the same soap opera, every day at the same time, since 1989. Twenty years after I left Nice, I come back to see them so they can tell me the 3,527 episodes I missed.
Biography
Benoît Grimalt was born in 1975 and lives in Nice. He is a photographer. In 2008, he directed a first documentary. So he is also a director. But not only, since in 2012 he published a book of drawings. So he is also a bit of a draughtsman…
Film career
Grand Prix of the jury jointly and audience award, festival Premiers Plans, Angers 2018 Prix Illy du court métrage, Directors’ Fortnight (Cannes 2017) Short Film Prize, Festival des étoiles (Najac 2017) Grand prix, Festival Interférences (Villeurbanne 2017) Special Jury Prize, Un festival C'est trop court (Nice 2017) Audience award and special jury mention, Cinemed - Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen (Montpellier 2017) **Audience award **jointly, Festival du film de famille (St-Ouen 2017)
Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux by Josza Anjembe
Fiction - 2016 - / - 21 min
Synopsis
At seventeen, Seyna, a teenager of Cameroonian origin, is passionate about the history of France, the country where she was born and with which she is deeply in love. With her baccalauréat in hand and coming of age approaching, Seyna aspires to only one thing: to obtain French nationality. But her father, Amidou, fiercely opposes it
Biography
Born in Paris, Josza Anjembe grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis and trained in journalism and political science. After working on various television programmes, she began in 2008 with her first documentary, Massage à la Camerounaise, selected at festivals and broadcast on La Chaîne Parlementaire. It was followed in 2012 by a documentary on KRUMP dance. Winner of the Talents en Court grant in 2015, she directed in 2016 her first fiction short, Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux, nominated for the César for Best Short Film 2018. [RETROSPECTIVE NOTE: In 2021, her next short, Baltringue, was nominated for the Césars.]
Film career
Nominated for Best Short Film at the Césars 2018; Prix du public - Off-courts Trouville, France New York International Children's Film Festival, USA Prix du public, Festival du film francophone, Montreal, Prix du public Festifrance, Festival Ciné Banlieue Prix du public Festival International du film, Saint-Jean-de-Luz Prix d'interprétation féminine France Télévisions, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
Gagarine by Fanny Liatard
Fiction - 2015 - / - 15 min
Synopsis
Youri is twenty. He lives with his mother in Ivry, in the housing estate where he grew up. But demolition is approaching: the setting of his childhood dreams is about to disappear. How do you take flight when you no longer have a spaceship?
Biography
Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh met on the benches of Sciences Po. She lived in Lebanon and Marseille, he in Pau and Colombia. She trained in video and joined the writing residency La Ruche at Gindou Cinéma; he completed the Master in Creative Documentary Directing at Lussas and shot Derrière la ligne noire about a Colombian community. In 2015, they co-directed Gagarine, widely awarded at festivals, then a series of shorts for the collection "Dans mon hall", produced by “De l'autre côté du périph”. Their short La république des enchanteurs won the Prix Canal+ at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2016. [In 2020, the feature adaptation of the short Gagarine was selected at the Cannes Film Festival]
Film career
HLM sur Cour(t) – Grand Prix du Jury; France – Prix du jury; Festival de Saint-Jean-de-Luz; Génération Court; France – Mention spéciale du jury; Festival Cinébanlieue – Prix du Jury; Sundance Channel Shorts Competition; United Kingdom – Best Original Score; FestiFrance; Belo Horizonte Brazil – Prix du Jury, Festival Cinémaginaire d’Argelès – Prix du Public Val-de-Marne, Paris Court Devant
Audience feedback
Quartiers Lointains in Martinique
Quartiers Lointains in Ouaga !
Quartiers Lointains in Clermont-Ferrand Fev 2019
Quartiers Lointains screening at the campus Bellecombette de Chambéry 23/01/2019
MJC Tati Orsay 10/01/19
Season screening 5 at Empire - Dakar - Sénégal
Season screening 5 at Comoedia - Lyon
Season screening 5 at Wallonie-Bruxelles Paris-France 02/10/2018
Season screening 5 at Lincoln Center NYC -USA 17/05/2018
Season screening 5 at University of Chicago - USA - 10/05/2018
Screening at SUNY Purchase-NYC-USA le 09/05/2018
Screening at UCLA - Los Angeles 25/04/2018
Season launch night 5, Ciné 104, 06/04/2018
MJC Jacques Tati d'Orsay