السفراء

Introduced by Léa Morin

Tickets

Scenes from everyday life and the tangled destinies of several inhabitants of the Parisian district of Goutte d'Or in the face of unemployment, contempt, indifference, racism, job insecurity and uprooting. A reaction to the racist murder of a teenager in the neighborhood, Ktari aimed to make a popular film to incite struggle and its broadcast on French television in 1977 provoked many reactions (partisan but above all racist). The film was shown at Taschkent Film Festival in 1976 as Libyan contribution and won the Tanit d'Or at the Carthage Film Days (JCC) in the same year yet has been seldom shown ever since. (LM)

Léa Morin is a film curator and researcher committed to the preservation, restoration and circulation of archives of films that stand against authoritarian narratives and models (colonial, state, capitalist, patriarchal). She is active in several collectives, including the Bouanani Archives: A History of Cinema in Morocco (Rabat), Talitha, an association engaged in the re-circulation of experimental cinematic and sound archives (Rennes), the editorial project Intilak (with Maya Ouabadi and Touda Bouanani) and as member of the Research Department of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastian).