{"id":298976,"date":"2023-09-22T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?p=298976"},"modified":"2024-05-17T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:26:12","slug":"screening-of-quartiers-lointains-followed-by-a-qa-with-the-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/uncategorized\/screening-of-quartiers-lointains-followed-by-a-qa-with-the-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening of &#8220;Quartiers Lointains&#8221; followed by a Q&#038;A with the Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Quartiers Lointains : Metamorphose(s)<\/strong>&nbsp;is a touring, short film program, which has highlighted PanAfrican and French multicultural filmmakers since 2013. Founded by French-Burkinab\u00e8 film critic and distributor Claire Diao with support by filmmaker Alice Diop, the&nbsp;<strong>Quartiers Lointains program comes to the Maison Fran\u00e7aise with four new, inspiring short films, and a Q&amp;A with Claire Dao and Aude N\u2019Guessan Forget.<\/strong>&nbsp;Movies will be screened in French with English subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we best exist in societies that are both ours and yet other? How to best navigate institutions that are not always equipped to deal with the issues we face? How to find mystical or rational remedies to heal our wounds? These are questions that traverse the African diasporas. The transformations that exile, having to adapt to new cultures, sickness, or pain subject us to are often minimized and rarely represented on the screen. Captured in documentary, animation, and fiction short films, our collection shines a light on these physical and psychic metamorphoses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;iframe title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/835471865?h=83451541ea\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"    allowfullscreen>&lt;\/iframe><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Shorts Films<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LAND OF SHADOWS (2021)&nbsp;<\/strong>Directed by Fatima Kaci. Documentary, 38 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lost in the middle of an industrial zone in the working-class suburbs of Paris is Bobigny\u2019s Muslim cemetery, a plot dating back to the colonial era, mixes different worlds and temporalities. Fatima Kaci sets out to discover the rituals, voices, and presences of its visitors. In the woven-together voices and troughs of silence, glimpses of a shared Franco-Algerian memory comes to light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ON THE SURFACE (2021)&nbsp;<\/strong>Directed by Fan Sissoko. Animation, 4 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young Black woman goes swimming in the Iceland Sea and meditates on raising a child in a country where she remains a foreigner. As she enters the icy waters, she relives periods of her traumatic pregnancy and postnatal depression before her swimming becomes more fluid. Surrounded by nature where she faces her fears, she can now embark on a process of healing her wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BULLES D&#8217;AIR (2018)<\/strong>&nbsp;Directed by Daouda Diakhat\u00e9. Fiction, 31 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a long stay in a psychiatric hospital, thirty-year-old Omar returns to the neighborhood where he lives with his father and little sister. All he is interested in is news of Ania, his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANANSI (2022)<\/strong>&nbsp;Directed by Aude N&#8217;Guessan Forget. Fiction, 20 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eden, an Afro hairdresser, tries to simply get over her recurrent stomach pains. Not really heard by the doctors, she tries to find a remedy herself. But when the pain gets too great to bear, her daily life becomes impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Directors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claire Diao<\/strong>&nbsp;is a French-Burkinab\u00e8 film critic and distributor. She founded the short film program Quartiers Lointains in 2013, co-founded the Pan-African film critic magazine AWOTELE in 2015, and has been the CEO of the Pan-African distribution company Sudu Connexion since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aude N\u2019Guessan Forget<\/strong>&nbsp;is the writer and director of&nbsp;<em>Anansi.<\/em>&nbsp;She first trained as an actor. In 2017 she turned to directing, working with women learning French at the Graines de Soleil theater company, housed in the Lavoir Moderne in Paris. At the same time, Aude began writing her own projects and followed a screenwriting course at iCIFAP in 2019. She participated in the FEMIS film school Residency program to train as a director. She is currently developing her first fiction feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quartiers Lointains : Metamorphose(s)&nbsp;is a touring, short film program, which has highlighted PanAfrican and French multicultural filmmakers since 2013. 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