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Thursday, November 26, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Randa Maroufi
Cinematography:
Luca Coassin
Editing:
Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis, Randa Maroufi
Sound:
Mohamed Bounouar, Léonore Mercier
Producer:
Sophie Penson, Said Hamic
Production:
Barney Production
The film uses an impressive cinematographic technique. An experiment that brings Dogville (2003 d. Lars Von Trier) to mind, and that makes use of Brechtian means to lead us onto a political and documentary track through its usage of convention. The spectator witnesses people caught in the system of customs, who perform and are subjected to repetitive and mechanical actions, the latter being broken every once in a while by the voice-over which communicates experiences that come from one side or the other of the authority/submission dynamic that takes shape between the border guards and the civilians. BAB SEPTA is an allegory of a 3rd class customs, where human rights are undermined under the pretext of an economically-driven sense of security. (Emil Vasilache, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
ANDA MAROUFI, born in 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco, a Fine Arts graduate at Tetouan (Morocco), Angers (France), and Le Fresnoy (France). Randa Maroufi belongs to this generation that grew up in an era dominated by images. She collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. She prefers to put her ambiguous fictions in the service of reality, and the field of her experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues, of which she highlights the founding mechanisms through her praxis.
Contact:
Judith Abitbol
Festivals, awards:
Special Mention - Dokufest 2020 / Grand Prix - Tampere 2020 / Rotterdam 2020 / Clermont-Ferrand 2020 / FID Marseille 2019 / Glasgow 2020 / Hamburg 2020 / Hong Kong 2020 / Valladolid 2019 / Winterthur 2019
BAB SEBTA consists of a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil providing the scene for an intense trafficking of manufactured goods, sold at discounted prices. Every day, thousands of people work there. In this film, my will is to transcribe this particular tension felt on this small territory separating Africa from Europe but also a more general state of the world. I wanted to raise the question of the passage between continents from the perspective of everyday life.” (RANDA MAROUFI)
“…an astonishing tour de force that is a much-needed political statement [and a] film that questions the ideology of borders and toxic immigration rhetoric through complex and exceptionally choreographed tracking shots.” (Winterthur Film Festival)
„...un impresionant tur de forță, o declarație politică foarte necesară [și un] film care chestionează ideologia granițelor și toxicitatea retoricii despre migrație, printr-o serie de cadre de urmărire complexe și coregrafiate excepțional.” (Winterthur Film Festival)