D’UNE BROUSSE À L’AUTRE

In March 1996, when the African families were evacuated from the Saint-Ambroise church and regrouped at the Gymnase Japy, Jacques Kebadian began filming to bear witness. For six months, he follows these exiles in the places of their quarantine and becomes attached to one of them, Dodo Wagué, originally from Mali. Dodo, surrounded by his family, becomes the central figure of this film and his personality asserts itself throughout the struggle. When he is finally able to return to Mali with his papers and visit his family, the camera is present and on this occasion delivers the other side of the story. Deliberately escaping the chronicle of events, Jacques Kebadian offers a more human, more universal story, in which what is at stake is the recognition of the individual and the right to live in harmony with his social environment.

Further information: Jacques Kébadian, Secours rouge du cinéma by Nicole Brenez

Jacques Kébadian’s Sans retour possible and Albertine are now available on HENRI, the Cinémathèque française’s platform.