[D66] Paris Stalingrad (2019) - Trailer

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Paris Stalingrad (2019) - Trailer (English Subs)
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•Gepubliceerd op 1 aug. 2019
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Directed by : Hind Meddeb, Thim Naccache
Produced by : Les Films du Sillage
Genre: Documentary - Runtime: 1 h 26 min
Production year: 2019

Summer 2016, Paris, refugees are camping in the Stalingrad district
while waiting to regularize their situation. The film follows the daily
life of Stalingrad district, a fron-tier-space in the heart of Paris. A
physical labyrinth added to the bureaucratic labyrinth already in place
– the city turns away. Controls, round-ups, police raids, fencing. How
to make room, be collective? How can you live in a space that prevents
you from existing? The film maps out the ordeal: water points, dark
corners, isolated parks, Ping-Pong tables to cook on. By trying to
survive in the street, a collective emerges and coexistence settles in.
>From out of the group, we hear the voice of Souleymane, a young refugee
from Darfur whose poems mingle with the filmmaker’s voice-over.
Souleymane walks around, wanders off, gets lost, re-appears and talks.
As the film tracks the itineraries in Paris, another journey takes
shape: fragmented stories evoke Libya, Vintimille, Calais. Echoes of a
shared journey, whereas Paris repels and divides. From Stalingrad to the
city ring roads, bodies end up isolated on the outskirts. Souleymane
leaves the group, the camera follows him, a solitary escape. The
collective breaks up, disappears from the frame, but the film exists as
the memory of a place, Stalingrad, where it was a matter of surviving
together.