The 33rd Carthage Film Days, which ended on Sunday 06 November in Tunis, honored these subjects of exile and migration in the “crossed views” section with documentaries made by 6 women from Africa and from Europe.
With our special correspondent in TunisHouda Ibrahim
The documentaries screened as part of this selection are complementary. Each exposes a particular facet of these often dramatic situations, which affect thousands of people.
Leave ? of the Cameroonian Mary-Noel Niba evokes the difficulties of those, less numerous, who return home after their European journey. ” Me, I wanted to revisit the part of the return. Because while we’re talking about those who arrive, there are those who have been back for a very long time, who are ostracized from society and who are considered as ”loosers”. I wanted to give them another status, that of war heroes, because for me, ultimately, the West is a battlefield.. »
Made in 2013, Choked an unfathomable differencefrom the French Sophie Bachelier, shows the Kafkaesque situation of a few hundred sub-Saharan Africans stranded in southern Tunisia, on the border with Libya. Author of several documentaries on the subject, Sophie Bachelier now wishes to testify differently. ” Now I want to move on to fiction, to tell things that I couldn’t say in the documentaries. Things that I couldn’t say, because if I said so, I would have endangered the people I was filming, on the other hand, for ten years I have been collecting testimonies and personal stories of these dramas which are happening “.
As a sign of the public’s interest in these questions, many spectators attended the screenings and the debates in the Africa cinema hall.
The migration issue is a question that is still relevant. We find it necessary and also urgent to highlight these migratory stories through documentary films.
Sahar El Echi, programmer of the “crossed views” section