Film Archive

Jahr

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Ain’t No Time for Women

Y’a pas d’heure pour les femmes
Sarra El Abed
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Canada
2020
19 minutes
Arabic,
French
Subtitles: 
English

The hairdressing salon “Saïda” is a space where people speak openly, laugh and argue. The subject rarely is hair. In the run-up to the presidential elections in Tunisia the shop turns into a political arena where the women – young or old, conservative or with a modern outlook – indulge in discussions about the pros and cons of the candidates. Their clever and witty statements reflect a young democracy with all its rifts and fault lines.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Sarra El Abed
Cinematographer
Catherine Lefebvre
Editor
Jordan Choinière
Producer
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Sound
Ilyaa Ghafouri
Score
Ilyaa Ghafouri
World Sales
Pierre Brouillette-Hamelin
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Alice’s Four Stories

Les quatre récits d’Alice
Myriam Jacob-Allard
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Canada
2019
5 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

Testimony versus “prosthetic memory”: The director dubs the sound recordings of her grandmother, collected over a period of ten years, in which the old lady recaps her encounter with a tornado as a child, in front of a green screen. While the details of her memories change through repeated narration over time, the found footage from feature and disaster films, weather reports and landscape images suggests a mediatised participation in the events.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Script
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Cinematographer
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Editor
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Producer
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Sound
Bruno Bélanger, Claire Jacob, Myriam Jacob-Allard
Narrator
Alice Gervais