Theinternal exile-fourcharacters:AbdallahKarim, a former militia.. Karim, anunemployedjournalistlivingin Paris...Rizkallah,a car salesman who worksin Brussels...
Nessim, a surgeon who came to Strasbourg... They don't know each other. The exile is the only thing that they have in common. The voice and the memory of the narrator brought them together.
"Borhane Alaouie is a topographer, he films the places. Like all of the people who chose to live elsewhere, he knows what a place means, to frame as much as todream,toflyas muchasto film." Serge Daney, about "Beyrouth la rencontre" in Libération.
fiche technique :
duration
51 minutes
script
Borhane Alaouie
camera
Rabih Braidi
sound
Henri Morelle
editing
Borhane Alaouie
a coproduction
Dora Films/Arte la sept/ E.A.P.C./ Cinélibre Bruxelles
Just like a note book full of words and pictures covering the years from 2000 to 2006, this film bears witness to groups of asylum seekers drifting through Strasbourg.
A documentary about people wearing uniforms or costumes. Who are they with, and who are they without their second skin? The film explores these questions through different characters: a policeman, a priest, a clown, a drag queen...
