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ELECTRO CHAABI

77 minutes, 2013
Directior : Hind MEDDEB (France, Tunisia)
Production : IPS (France), Studio Masr (Egypt)

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In the slums of Cairo, young people dance to electro chaabi, a new music blending folk song, electro beats and freestyles chanted as rap. The idea is to merge the sounds and styles in a chaotic manner. A single guiding principle: wreak havoc!
Victims of corruption and social segregation, kids from the working class districts get all that out of their system by partying. Freedom to move and speak, break the religious taboos – much more than just a musical phenomenon, electro chaabi is a healthy outlet for a young generation harassed by the restrictions Egyptian society imposes on them.

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DÉSÉQUILIBRE

54 minutes, 2013
Direction : Julien GAERTNER (France)
Production : Jem Productions (France), France Télévisions (France), 2M (Maroc)

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Like all his family, Younes was born an acrobat. Today the head of Tangier’s Groupe Acrobatique, he prepares a new show, “Azimut”, with the stage director Aurélien Bory.
But between his family life in the Tangiers medina and his responsibilities during the rehearsals, Younes begins to feel his career is reaching its end. So he looks for a new balance between these two worlds, a search which takes him on the traces of the legendary acrobat, Sidi Ahmed Ou Moussa.

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