FIFEQ – Dis-moi + Les sénégalaises et la sénégauloise [FREE]

Presented in partnership with Tenk.ca
Screening Followed by a discussion on the auto-ethnographic approach of Chantal Akerman and Alice Diop

Free admission – Limited seats
6:00pm – Audience welcome
6:30 pm – Screening begins

Dis-moi

Chantal Akerman directed this documentary as part of a thematic series of TV films about grandmothers. Echoing the voice of her own mother who told her about her relationships with her own mother and grandmother, the filmmaker visits three elderly Jewish women and asks them to talk about their ancestors. Seated in their living rooms, filmed in fixed shots, these grandmothers recount their memories, the life of Jewish communities before the war, and the efforts to survive the horrors of the Holocaust. (film-documentaire.fr)

Directed by Chantal Akerman
1980 / 45 minutes / French

Filmmaker’s country: Belgium
Country of filming: Belgium
Country of production: France

Les sénégalaises et la sénégauloise

Director Alice Diop was born in France to Senegalese parents. During a month spent in Senegal , equipped with a small camera, she films daily life. She portrays three women from her family: Néné and her two daughters Mouille and Mame Sarr. “(…) This courtyard is my mother’s courtyard, that of her childhood. This courtyard is where I could have been born. I am somewhat filming what my life could have been, I realize how close I was to being born on the “right side”. I can measure from here the transformation of exile , all that is lost by leaving, all that is gained.” (film-documentaire.fr)

Directed by Alice Diop
2007 / 56 minutes / French, Wolof (s.t. French)

Filmmaker’s country: France
Country of filming: Senegal
Country of production: France