DOCUMENTARY, 2021, 79′
I wonder if, between being a Jewish and an Arabic woman, I have to choose. I pay visits, again and again, to my four grandparents, Jews from Algeria and Tunisia, exiled in France in the 1960s. I am determined to confront them with the meaning of these two identities I inherited from them, seemingly so contradictory. With humor and self-mockery, I question the contradictions and the unthoughts, and I stage the many different versions of my always rewritten family history. In this search through a history full of holes, what are being told are frustrated relationships to memory and transmission.
Selections
Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival 2022 : Public Prize (USA)
Barcelona Jewish Film Festival 2022 (Spain)
All to human 2022 (Netherlands)
Festival international du cinéma d’auteur de Rabat 2022 (Marocco)
Dok Leipzig 2021 : Intereligous prize (Germany)
IDFA 2021 (Amsterdam)
Traces de vies 2021 (France)
Cinemed 2021 (France)
And more !
Team and support
Director : Cléo Cohen
Image : Cléo Cohen
Editing : Saskia Berthod
Original music : Patrick Bismuth
Sound Editing and Mix : Gilles Benardeau
Color Grading : Graziella Zanoni
Coproduction : ViàOccitanie
With the support of Region PACA, region Occitanie, CNC (Fonds Images de la diversité), Tënk, Procirep-Angoa, SCAM and French Institut of Tunis.