Country: France
Year: 2016
Duration: 106'
Nasser is in his thirties when he goes back to Paris after spending some time in jail. Margot, his probation officer, encourages him to work at his brother’s bar, Le Prestige, located in Pigalle. The two brothers, however, never got along and it doesn’t take long for old wounds to fester. [mp]
Biography
film director
Mohamed "Hamè" Bourokba
Mohamed “Hamé” Bourokba and Ekoué Labitey met at university in 1994. Three years later, they started the rap group La Rumeur. They became the voice of the plight of the banlieue and of the children of France’s post-colonial immigration history. In just a few years they gained respect and recognition as one of the most important components of the French hip hop scene. Their first LP, L’ombre sur la mésure, was released in 2002 and quickly became a genre classic. “Hamé” Bourokba moved to New York in 2004, where he studied cinema at the Tisch School of Arts. After his return, he directed the short Ce chemin devant moi (2012), presented at the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. He then made his debut feature Les derniers parisiens in 2015, which wrote and directed with Ekoué.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mohamed «Hamé» Bourokba:
Ce chemin devant moi (cm, 2012).
Mohamed «Hamé» Bourokba, Ekoué Labitey:
Les derniers parisiens (2015).
Ekoué Labitey
Mohamed “Hamé” Bourokba and Ekoué Labitey met at university in 1994. Three years later, they started the rap group La Rumeur. They became the voice of the plight of the banlieue and of the children of France’s post-colonial immigration history. In just a few years they gained respect and recognition as one of the most important components of the French hip hop scene. Their first LP, L’ombre sur la mésure, was released in 2002 and quickly became a genre classic. “Hamé” Bourokba moved to New York in 2004, where he studied cinema at the Tisch School of Arts. After his return, he directed the short Ce chemin devant moi (2012), presented at the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. He then made his debut feature Les derniers parisiens in 2015, which wrote and directed with Ekoué.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mohamed «Hamé» Bourokba, Ekoué Labitey:
Les derniers parisiens (2015).
Declaration
film director
“Les derniers parisiens is first and foremost a film made by a rap group that, for years, has been feeding itself off various influences through hip-hop. […] Our aim is to bring rap culture to the screen the way we experience it on tour. […] We wanted the film to relay the urgency and insecurities that seize our characters. Our ambition was to direct a fiction film that is grounded in the reality of its stories, its main location, of these two generations still infused with risks and tensions. Shaping and writing this film was a long thought-out process but it also bears the hazards encountered in its making. Les derniers parisiens was shot fast with this dynamic that characterizes our artistic identity.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/directors, screenplay
Mohamed «Hamé» Bourokba, Ekoué Labitey
fotografia/cinematography
Lubomir Bakchev
montaggio/film editing
Karine Prido
scenografia/production design
Samuel Teisseire
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Reda Kateb (Nasser), Slimane Dazi (Arezki), Elisa Bachir (la ragazza della banlieu/banlieusarde), Yassine Azzouz (Diomede), Anaïs Honvault Zborowski, Mylene Bude ( il cliente notturno/night client), Andrew Tisba (dj)
produttori/producers
Mohamed «Hamé» Bourokba, Ekoué Labitey, Benoit Danou
produzione/production
La Rumeur Filme
coproduzione/coproduction
Ici et Là Productions
contatti/contacts
Memento Films
Sata Cissokho
sata@memento-films.com
www.memento-films.com
Mohamed «Hamé» Bourokba, Ekoué Labitey
fotografia/cinematography
Lubomir Bakchev
montaggio/film editing
Karine Prido
scenografia/production design
Samuel Teisseire
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Reda Kateb (Nasser), Slimane Dazi (Arezki), Elisa Bachir (la ragazza della banlieu/banlieusarde), Yassine Azzouz (Diomede), Anaïs Honvault Zborowski, Mylene Bude ( il cliente notturno/night client), Andrew Tisba (dj)
produttori/producers
Mohamed «Hamé» Bourokba, Ekoué Labitey, Benoit Danou
produzione/production
La Rumeur Filme
coproduzione/coproduction
Ici et Là Productions
contatti/contacts
Memento Films
Sata Cissokho
sata@memento-films.com
www.memento-films.com
