Samir Abdallah
Directing
Biography
Samir Abdallah was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Egyptian modern art pioneer Hamed Abdallah and his Danish nurse wife. He has lived in France since the age of six, where he acquired French nationality. After studying Drama and Cinema at the University of Nanterre in the early 1980s, he participated in the creation of the IM’Média Agency with his brother Mogniss, and produced numerous reports and documentaries on Immigration for the program Rencontres, on the French channel FR3, between 1988 and 1991. He has produced, alone or in collaboration, numerous documentaries, including: Islam in France, between traditions and modernity in 1990, The Revolt of Veaux-en-Velin in 1991, Journeys in the Land of the People, in 1991, The Ballad of the Undocumented in 1997, The Siege in 2002, Writers of the Borders, travels in Palestine(s), in 2004, Quo Va Dis?, in 2006, After the War, It’s Always War, in 2007, Gaza-strophe, Palestine, in 2009, Candidates for Arabs?, in 2012, In Revolutionary Cairo, since 2011… In 1991, he founded L’Yeux ouverts, which organizes workshops in neighborhoods and leads an international network of public screenings of films expressing a critical point of view on the contemporary world. It has more than 3,000 partners, associations and organizations, in France, Europe, Arab countries, and the Americas. This network, called Cinemeteque, develops the film website of the same name.
Known For
Looking back at the history of the struggle for true equality, we follow the daughters and sons of immigrant workers who have been nominated as candidates representing "diversity" in various election campaigns since the 2007 presidential election. On the ground, through meetings, debates, and more "intimate" encounters with candidates and actors from past struggles, a great diversity of thought emerges. But they all have the same goal: not to be just "candidates for Beurs." With many activists from working-class neighborhoods, from Clichy-sous-Bois to Marseille, via Roubaix, and candidates Mouloud Aounit, Kamel Hamza, Faouzi Lamdaoui, Halima Boumedienne, Omar Slaouti, Samia Ghali, Karim Zeribi, Rama Yade, and others... Will these "new faces" of the Republic be in the picture when the votes are counted, or will they simply be "candidates for the Beurs"?
Candidats pour du beur ?
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Une mémoire vivante : Un patrimoine commun 1973-2023
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MINGUETTES 1983 - Paix sociale ou pacification ?
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ABDEL POUR MÉMOIRE
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Nanterre, L' Après-transit
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Marseille 1973, l'été meurtrier
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Gaza-strophe, Palestine
In 1997, the committed filmmaker Jean Asselmeyer, armed with his camera, posed the following question at the General Assembly of Documentary Film in Lussas and in Paris: Is it possible today to make a committed creative documentary?, to René Vautier, Thierry Garrel, Jean-Michel Carré, Jean-Marie Barbe, Yves Jeanneau, Alexandre Cornu, Lapilli films, Jean-François Raynaud, Samir Abdallah and many others, not the least of whom.
The Battle of Production
A documentary released in 1985 about the Mothers of Place Vendôme.
Les "Folles de la Place Vendôme"
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Saïd Bouziri par lui-même
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Portrait : BOUZID KARA
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Les Quartiers ne lâchent
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Quo Vadis?
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La Ballade des sans-papiers
In September 1994 in Trappes, Abdelmohcen Asli, alias Titus, 24 years old, was stabbed in the heart by a young man from his housing estate when he intervened to prevent a fight. Three weeks later, he died of his wounds. His parents, his brother, his sisters and his friends, in shock, want to keep his memory alive. On the 40th day of his death, they each send him a declaration of love filled with images and memories. The director is the brother-in-law of the victim.
Pour Titus
Following the appeal of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers went there to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians a "beautiful linguistic collaboration" in these "high places of spirituality” (Ramallah in Arabic) where the Israeli program of humiliation is also a “verbicidal war”. “We want to listen and make other voices heard in the din of war, that of writers, artists, academics, all those who are preparing for the future... Opposing the logic of war, not a force of "interposition but INTERPRETATION FORCES", says the French writer Christian Salmon, member of this international delegation.
Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s)
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PEUGEOT - IMMIGRÉS DANS UNE GRÈVE POPULAIRE
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La bataille du Petit Bard
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NANTERRE : LE MOUVEMENT GUTENBERG
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