Françoise Prenant
A famous docking : Algiers, the White City, in a radiant light. The picture darkens with a voice-over reading of the text of the surrender of the Dey of Algiers in 1830. "About the Conquest" confronts us with a page of the French national novel that was too hastily turned.
Through my window-camera, during urban adventures, views of Algiers, where, as a child, after Algerian Independence, I learned about liberty, and which some decades later after immigrating against my will and deliberately becoming an exile, I chose as my city. I was then a "wife of the Republic of Madagascar," as the left-hand side page of my passport noted, while the right-hand side declared "of the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary." Disembodied, words off-screen, intervening one over the other, simultaneous encounters of polyphonic voices glide.
In the summer of 1969, the first and memorable Panafrican Festival of Algiers (Panaf of its small name) had brought together, assembled from all over Africa, musicians, dancers and theater groups, messenger artists from "brother countries", movements from liberation and the diaspora of the Americas. Forty years later, in July 2009, the second edition of this festival took place. During this one, I filmed several dance troupes in rehearsals or performances; the levitated bodies of the dancers, the energy, the grace and the life they give off.
René Schérer, who calls himself Professor Hairibus, is a philosopher, professor emeritus at Paris 8 University, and the author of numerous works about Husserlian phenomenology, childhood, Charles Fourrier and utopia. At any time, any opportunity, on paths climbed while talking, in the vegetable garden where ideas are ploughed as is the soil, in the seven-eleven where economy is sought and thought, at home, a haven of freedom, while washing up or peeling vegetables, while striding over Cevennes' crests where chestnuts and possibilities are found along the way, his philosophy is at work and play, in that it stimulates, provokes, shakes ideas and things.
Between Paris and Syria, the Orient remains an ordinary place filled with literature, myth, and the pulse of love. A love film without lovers, based on a poem by Constantin Cavafy.
A film directed by French filmmaker Françoise Prenant.
Two women, angry Myope and happy Lunette (both played by Franssou Prenant), bounce ideas off each other in a small apartment, until Lunette fashions a story about Agathe (Cecile Garcia Fogel) and her husband Pierrot (Manuel Cedron), a one-time musician who now teaches gym. While the two love each other, they cannot communicate without quarreling.
A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.
Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both before and after the disturbances. He was imprisoned for a short while in 1973. Disillusioned after the failure of the demonstrations and the death of the only woman he had loved, his life seems to have changed from a period of hope and activism to one of bottomless despair. His friend, Romain Goupil wrote and directed this biographical documentary. Death at 30 received the 1982 Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera Award for "Best First Feature-Length Film."
Comedy insolent and anti-authoritarian, “Albertine”, film-proclamation of the insurrection of youth and the desires, tell the history of a teenager in rebellion against the school, the rancid family, the religion and put in scene young girls and young boys from 14 to 18 years which assert their right to a sexuality without obstacles and the right to the abortion for the minor ones.
