Intercultural festival of Saint-Denis
Programming cinema
Thursday May 11, 2006 of 18:30 at 21:30 & Friday May 12, 2006 of 15:15 to 21:00
at the University Paris VIII - Saint-Denis

Watashitachi (the people which misses), in charge of the Programming Cinema of the Intercultural Festival of Saint-Denis, cordially invite you to the university Paris VIII, on May 11 nearest. This program will try to trace some axes of a interculturality contemporary, subtle, animated, in becoming. Impensés colonial, ostracized suburbs/creolity, subalternism, these films draw which speeches and political stating can propose and oppose committed scenario writers or collectives. We will stop on an activism of the popular quarters within a French situation postcoloniale, and more particularly on the possible intersection between cultural referents and political feminist. We will also make place in comparison with young scenario writers, whose practice of documentary, allows a stating of oneself more intimate, for an otherness which is invented in the identity traffic, report/ratio of oneself with the other. The dance hip hop, finally, like dynamic compost of the interculturality, practised with height and promptness, invitation with a fusion and a maintained variation, between the cultures.

18:30 - And why not? of Fouad Sehabi
(History of a son which films his/her father stopping smoking)
(2003, 22 ' - University Paris VIII)

“Within the framework of her workshop of realization, Claire Simon proposed to us to carry out a film in connection with the idea of end; I chose to film my father, who had just decided to stop smoking. To film my father exceeds his relation with the tobacco: it is also about a film on the relation between a father and his son” F.S. in the presence of the realizer

19:00 - Memories of immigrants - Children
of Yamina Benguigui
(52 ', 1997)

“I wanted to give again dignity with these Maghrebian Immigrants which one forgot the past and the conditions in which they were accomodated in France. Ignorance is dangerous. It is necessary to find our history for better including/understanding our double culture and making known it also with French of stock”. Y. Benguigui

19:50 - the Gospel of the creole pig
of Michelange Quay
(2004 -13 ' - Films with a dollar)

With Dominique Batraville. Short film on the shantytowns in Haiti. “I am the Créole pig. I am which I am, I am the pig of your ancestors. It there has no pig except me, This pig of new world whose blood washed the slaves of their sin, whose flesh is your flesh, until the end of times

20:05 - Neither subjected whores Nor, Route of a combat
of Margherita Charon
(2005 - 53 ')

Neither subjected whores nor: it is with these words that a handle of women of the suburbs, launches in 2002, a call denouncing the drifts of the ghettos and violences made to the women. In 2003, they start “the walk of the women against the ghettos and for the equality”, which cross-piece 23 cities. At the time of the actions, debates and meetings, which they carry out in all France, we attend the formidable release of the word which they cause. (MK2 Doc.)

Friday May 12, 2006 - B1 Lecture theater - 15:15 - 21h

15:15 - While waiting…
of Anne Sophie Lepicard
(2002 - 24 ' - University Paris VIII)

Smaïl left Algeria where its songs were worth death threats to him. Come to France, one did not give him the right to remain. But it remained despite everything, in the hope to obtain one day these famous papers… in the presence of the director

15:45 - Volatile (E) of Claire Ananos
(2005, 31 ')

With Khalid Ribani, Majid El Farrouj “I proposed this film with Khalid Ribani in 1999. Khalid is a friend of childhood, French of Moroccan origin. It is a a little insane boy, very exuberant and merry seemingly, a little “broken” inside. The characteristic of Khalid is not to hold in place. It leaves for very long periods in ramble to France or abroad, it disappears, then reappears without shouting station. Enough imperceptible, it is necessary to benefit from its moments of presence. He often speaks about Morocco, like Eldorado. I wanted to discover this country through Khalid, to try to define His Morocco in him. I proposed a protocol of turning to him which is not too constraining for him: to leave to Morocco with him, to follow the route of his choice, me “to melt” in his way of apprehending the world… and me, I film it. This protocol of turning implied that I deliver myself feet and fists related to goodwill my character: it is him which led, which imposed its desires, its more or less eccentric ideas, which knew the country, the language. Me, opposite, I was to defend a film, and that proved to be a rather complex task…” A.C. in the presence of the director

16:20 - Here or over there of Diden ZEGAOUI
(1998, 52 ')

Poignant talks on an aspect little known: the return forced in Algeria of teenagers whose parents do not imagine any more their integration in France. Brutally uprooted, they are obliged to make the opposite course of that of the former generation to fit in a country which they do not know. (Media library of the three worlds)

17:10 - Discussion with Pascal Blanchard, historian
(10 ', Oumma TV)
“The colonial fracture in France is visible, puts a foot in suburbs and looks at…” Pascal Blanchard is researcher with the CNRS and joint author of “the colonial fracture. The French company with the prism of the colonial heritage” (Oumma).

17:20 - a hardly buckled racism of Jerome Host
(2004, 75 ', H production)

October 2003, Alma and Lila Levy are excluded from the College Henri Wallon of Aubervilliers for the only reason which they carry a scarf. Was followed from there a political debate and media deafening, justifying in the majority of the cases the exclusion of the young girls who carry the scarf to the school. February 2004, a law ends up being voted by the National Assembly, at the request of Chirac… “A hardly buckled racism” reconsiders this polemic since the business of Creil in 1989 (where two schoolgirls had been excluded for the same reasons) and tries “to reveal” what really hides behind the will to exclude these young girls. We gave them the word. Like with others [professors, militant (E) S associative (- ves), feminists, researchers (- euses)] gathered (E) S around the collective “a school for all-your”, which fights for the abrogation of this law that they and they judge sexist and racist… (H prod)

18:40 - MIB of Reynald Bertrand
(2003, 51 ', Coproduction MIB/Le dropper)

From September 2001 to July 2002, of Mantes-the-Pretty in Dammarie Lilies, chronicles of autonomous fights which proceeded on popular quarters in reaction to the discriminatory devices such as the double-sorrow, or following police violences or crimes. These fights, of which to become it is dubious vis-a-vis the reason of State, question the police management of the populations resulting from immigration and are the expression of a combat for dignity and the equality. (MIB) in the presence of the realizer and of the MIB

19:30 - To make kiffer angels
of Jean-Pierre Thorn
(1996, 90 ', Agat films)

“For fifteen years - of Bronx in Minguettes - in cities and their suburbs, has been essential an artistic movement rebels, the “hip-hop” which through graffs, rap and dance allows a youth excluded to say: I exist!. Who are the dancers of this “mouv”? Their courses, their rages, their dreams, their hopes? What makes that a whole generation - which was seen as “roasted” - is recognized in the particular energy of this culture? From which does the wild beauty come from this language of the bodies (invented on paperboards with same the ground) passing today from the street to the scene and hustling all the codes of the contemporary dance? An initiatory voyage through the lunar landscapes - waste lands industrial, hollow, anonymous cities, urban centres - with the meeting of some of the characters of this adventure to restore a true word - close friend - with all those whom one more usually hears only through the deformed prism of the media, when the suburbs with the 20 hour old burn newspaper. ” Jean-Pierre Thorn, November 1996.

Programming: Aliocha Imhoff, Kantuta Quiros.
Thanks: CIVD, Simon Weinspach, Assane Diakaté, Fouad Sehabi, Anne Sophie Lepicard, Claire Ananos, ASVJ, Vidéorème, Agat Films (Julie the Rhone), Films with 1 dollar, H prod (Jerome Host, Christel), Chechmate Films (Thomas Arbez), Media library of the three worlds, the MIB and it Account-drop production (Isabelle Tillou), Neither subjected whores nor (Franck Chaumont), Oumma (Said Branine, Djamel Mousli), Houria Bouteldja, ONF (Perrine Desforges), Lantern Production, SeaFilms production, Abbel films, Kfilms, Sylvie Ananos, Dichfresco, François-Governed Levol, Scarhua, Michka Gorki, Pauline Trollé, Kamal Hachkar, Sakina Bakha and the Extérieur emission Harm of Radio operator Campus.