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Printemps à  La Source

Chantal Briet
2001 France 55 minutes French

At Epinay-sur -Seine, Ali’s grocery has been forgotten in the renovation work carried out on the housing estate, and is the only store still open in the now derelict shopping centre. The old ladies can still walk there and the kids are always welcome. In fact, people go there as much for a bit of human warmth as anything else-to have a chat, to listen to Ali playing the guitar or the tambourine and, if need be, to ask for help as he always comes up with a good idea: a bit of advice on how to fill in a form, a bit of cash in exchange for a cheque… Yet, as one spring follows another… resistance has its limits.

Chantal Briet

Réalisatrice intervenante sur plusieurs ateliers cinéma avec des adolescents dans les cités de banlieue de Seine Saint-Denis. A réalisé entre autres : •Inch’Allah, 1987 • Un enfant tout de suite, 2001 • Printemps à La Source, 2001

Production :
Images Plus; Yenta Productions; Perifilms
Editing :
Nathalie Charles
Sound :
Frédéric Loth; Jean-Paul Guirado
Photography :
Sophie Bachelier

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