Director Olga Prud’homme Farges

Running time  52′

Synopsis

Through her memories, it is a long life of passions and fights which takes shape in this film.

Her discovery of Egyptology, her engagement in French Resistance during world war II , her  fight to save the Temples of Nubia, fight which she will gain in 1960 thanks to the assistance of UNESCO, are as many chapters as Christiane Desroches Noblecourt tells us.

It is her also which, in 1967, will make the frenchs discover the treasure of Toutankhamon during an exhibition that she will set, her still who will organize the rescue the mummy of Ramsès II threatened of rotting.

Her always, who, in 1998, will battle so that the obelisk of the Place of the Concorde is again crowned of its golden pyramidion.

Woman, pionnier, untiring, narrator, captivating, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt did not finish astonishing us and alluring us.

Crew

Director    Olga Prud’homme Farges

Producer   Catherine Dussart

Editing   Mary Stephen

Camera   Jean-Luc Cohen

Assistant  Jérôme Carret

Sound   Timothée Alazraki

With the participation : Centre national de la cinématographie  et de l’image animée

and  France Télévisions – Pôle Documentaires

© 2009 – CDP

Festivals

IV ème Festival International du Film d’Archéologie de Besançon Prix du Public et

Mention Spéciale du Jury.

Prix Jules Verne au Festival du films d’Amiens

Our forbidden places

A film by Leila Kilani

Running time 105′

Synopsis

The Moroccan authorities resorted to torture and forced disappearances. This repression against opposition parties started at the beginning of the 1960’s and worsened in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

Members of different opposition groups but ordinary citizens too were systematically abducted and detained in secret centres: barracks, farms and villas, airport hangars were used as detention centres.

In Morocco, at t the beginning of 1990’s, there was what was already called the “democratic transition”.

In July 1999, King Hassan II died. In April 2004, the consultative committee announced the creation of “a commission for truth and reconciliation” aimed at hearing the testimonies of the victims and of the relatives and friends of the deceased.

In the last ten years the deceased’s friends and relatives and the victims who had been forbidden to tell their tragic experience have at last been able to do so. Morocco is reflecting itself through the representation of the years of darkness.

In Morocco during these twenty years, no one could see, no one could hear but everybody knew. Obsessed about its dark past, Morocco has now started to analyse its collective memory.

The investigating work of the Commission for the truth will be the common theme of the film. The film will follow the investigations and the testimonies of the Commission. It will end on the conclusion it will render.

These characters are not only the witnesses of  a past which links them to their country forever, they are also inhabitants of this land trying to cope as they can. For twenty years they have suffered of being invisible. Today they are still cut out from the rest of Moroccan society by the wall of incommunicability their experiences, torture and banning have built.

Fiche technique

with

Hassan Al Bou and Leïla & Fadwa,

Rouqia Ait Shaykh-Harrafi, sa fille Najat et sa petite fille Zineb,

Saïd Hadan et sa mère Rahma,

Mohamed Errahoui et sa mère Yto,

Et aussi

les membres de l’Instance Equité et Réconciliation,

tous les coordinateurs et personnels encadrant les victimes.

Director     Leïla Kilani

Photography     Eric Devin/Benoît Chamaillard

Editing     Leïla Kilani/Tina Bass

Co-Producers   CDP, INA and Socco Chico, with the participation of RTBF –

TSR – TV3 – UR /Swedish Education Broadcasting – Moroccan Cinema Center

A film by Mehran Tamadon presskit_bassidji_engl_web

Synopsis

In a desert, on a hill, men and women in chadors and children are wandering in a vast open air “museum” dedicated to the memory of the martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war. This is the Iranian new year, we are close to the Iraqi border. I’m following my guide. He’s tall and charismatic. His name is Nader Malek-Kandi. For almost three years, I’ve decided to immerse myself in the very heart of the most extremist supporters of the Islamic republic of Iran (the bassidjis), to better understand their paradigms. We are from the same country, however everything divides us. I can only hurt their convictions being an atheist Iranian, living in France, and son of communist activists under the Shah’s regime. Nevertheless, we engage a dialog. But, between seduction and rhetoric games, moments of truth and the reality of the political and religious system they support, how far are we ready to give up some of our respective convictions to perceive and understand one another ?

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