40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIAN DOCUMENTARIES COMPETITION
N'EN PARLONS PLUS
by Cecile Khindria, Vittorio Moroni
Country: Italy, France
Year: 2022
Duration: 76'
Sarah, a 30-year-old French woman, becomes a mother and realises that she knows nothing about her father's past. During the Algerian war, her grandfather fought with the French against the independence of his people. When France lost, Sarah's family escaped to Marseille. But there, instead of being welcomed, they were locked-up in a camp. This is where Sarah’s journey begins...
Biography
film director
Cecile Khindria
Paris based journalist, she has reported on various national and international subjects such as Russia’s threat on Northern Europe, Albania’s difficult recovery from communism or Hitler’s secret Indian legion. N’en parlons plus is her first documentary film.
Vittorio Moroni
(Sondrio, Italy, 1971) in addition to writing scripts and making fiction movies, he has written and directed several documentary films (Sulle tracce del gatto, 2004; Le vacanze di Licu, 2006; Eva e Adamo, 2008), which have had cinema and television broadcasting in Italy and abroad and have been selected in major international festivals (Toronto Hot Docs, IDFA, Brooklyn...).
FILMOGRAFIA
Sulle tracce del gatto (coregia con Andrea Caccia, mm, doc. 2001), Tu devi essere il lupo (2004), Le vacanze di Licu (doc., 2006), Eva e Adamo (doc.,2008), Se chiudo gli occhi non sono più qui (2013), Denise (doc., tv, 2022), L’invenzione della neve (2022), N’en parlons plus (coregia con Cecile Khindria, doc., 2022).
Declaration
film director
“This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Algerian war and for the first time a French president, Emmanuel Macron, has apologised, in person and by the enactment of a new law, to the harkis, those Algerians who fought alongside the French before being betrayed by the latter at the end of the war: rejected, interned or abandoned to a tragic fate with their families. But why did these Algerians choose to fight for the independence of their own people? The events and motives of this 'double betrayal' are what Sarah needs to understand. Her investigation, concomitantly with our camera, respectfully but obstinately tries to break the silences and resistances, first of all of her family, then of the harki community interned for nearly 15 years in the Bias camp, in south-west France”.
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, FILM EDITING: Cecile Khindria, Vittorio Moroni. MUSIC: Mario Mariani. CAST: Sarah Djafour, Rabah Djafour, Fatma Djafour, Mohamed Djafour, Fatma Djafour, Arezki Djafour, Marie, Faustine, Mohand, Kader Tamazount, Madame Tamazount.
CONTACT:
Cecile Khindria cecile.khindria@gmail.com
