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Au pays de Citron

Frédéric Touchard
2002 France 52 minutes French

“With my companion and my 5-year-old daughter Mathilde, I moved into a small house hidden behind an old Parisian block of flats between the Belleville and Ménilmontant districts. The 8-year-old Fatimatou and her 6-year-old brother Ibrahima, of Guinean origin, live in this building and became Mathilde’s best friends. This is a friendship that I wanted to portray, as it has helped give me a better understanding of childhood and its imaginary world. Their childhood, but my own too” (Frédéric Touchard)

Frédéric Touchard

Né en 1961. Réalise plusieurs clips musicaux et un court métrage (Crocodile, 1993) ainsi que des documentaires : • Novo Fado et autres romances, 1996 • La Fanfare ne perd pas le nord !, 1999 • Au pays de Citron, 2001 • Cinq exils et quelques autres, 2003

Production :
Factory; Momento !; Centre Audiovisuel de Paris - Forum des Images
Editing :
Audrey Maurion
Sound :
Raphaël Maurion
Photography :
Frédéric Touchard

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