FESTIVAL PARLÉ 03

17 x 24 cm / 32 pages / March 2023

isbn 978-2-35137-337-8

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‘I don't lie when it comes to lying, but I don't fall for the truth! An unforgettable character, this is the man who speaks to Hassen Ferhani's camera in his first feature film, Dans ma tête un rond-point.In the middle of the slaughterhouse in Algiers, where the men live as much as they work, it's all about love.A sensitive approach to the experience of reality by the filmmaker, but also by those he films. This sentence, spoken in front of the camera, in other words directly to me, the viewer, looking me straight in the eye, reveals a whole philosophy of life. Suddenly, at the heart of the film, it's also a key to understanding something of Hassen Ferhani's cinematographic practice and the film we're watching. It's also the most beautiful way of describing documentary directing, and the best response to the demand for truth to which documentary cinema is assigned’. Catherine Bizern

• Texts (in French only)

- ‘De l'autre côté du réel (mais quelles vérités?) by Catherine Bizern

- ‘The game of truths’ by Alice Leroy

- ‘Rendre justice’ by Olivier Cheval

• SACRe research and creation programme

- Watching the Pain of Others by Chloé Galibert-Lainé

- De la relation photographique by Jean-Robert Dantou