Les Quais

The Quays are Rolf’s world. Rolf is a docker on the Estaque (a district in Marseilles). A double identity, that of a worker in the harbour, and of a man in a popular area, open on to immigrants. Wounded at work, he was two years out of his job and comes back again. But there is little hope as to the future of the harbour, and the Estaque, as Rolf has known it, undergoes quick changes. (Denis Gheerbrant)

Denis Gheerbrant

After graduating in filmmaking and shooting from the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC), until the 1990s he worked both in documentary photography and shooting for fiction and documentary films. At the same time, he made his first films. He directed films including And the Life (1991), Life Is Immense and Full of Dangers (1994), AFTER, a Journey in Rwanda (2004), The Republic of Marseille (2009), We Have Stricken (2014).