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HABIBI

Franssou Prenant
1983 France 35 min Language: French

A young gay man falls head over heels in love with an Algerian labourer he meets in transvestite bar where he is a regular.

Franssou Prenant

Franssou Prenant was born in 1952. The filmmaker working mainly in Super-8 has directed L’Escale de Guinée (1987), Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde (2000) and Sous le ciel lumineux de son pays natal (2002). She has also worked as a scriptwriter, actress and editor for Raymond Depardon, Romain Goupil and Jacques Kébadian.
Her own films have been selected in numerous festivals in France and abroad: IndieLisboa, Viennale, IFFR, EntreVues – Festival du film de Belfort, Côté court, Visions du Réel…
Her last film, De la conquête, was selected in 2022 at the Rencontres du cinéma documentaire de Montreuil, at the États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas and at the FIDMarseille.

Cast :
Rémi Germain, Okacha Touita, Marcel Bozonnet, Marianne Merleau-Ponty, René Schérer, Loïc Jouan, Michel Cressole
Production :
Garance Films (Dominique Vignet)
Photography :
Jean-Yves Escoffier
Sound :
Jean-Paul Mugel
Editing :
Franssou Prenant, Carole Ecquer
Print source :
Forum des images - laurence.millereux@forumdesimages.fr

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