Departing from material records of the early colonial “scientific expeditions” and “taming campaigns” led by the French colonizers in North Africa, this poetic documentary follows in three acts a community of young nomads as they form an imagined utopian society in response to imperialist rule. Re-enactments, improvisations, and interviews performed and conducted with the inhabitants of Algiers, Kythira Island, and the Prosfygika community in Athens inform this work as instances of alternative temporality and create an autonomous space where memory becomes a resistance strategy.
Le fort des fous
Le fort des fous
58th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Narimane Mari
- Cinematography: Narimane Mari, Antonin Boischot
- Editing: Narimane Mari, Corentin Doucet
- Sound: Antoine Morin
- Music: Cosmic Neman & Doctor Schonberg (Los Cousinos)
- Actors: Michel Haas, Rachid Haddad, Thekla Gounaridi, Antoine Morin
- Production: Centrale ?lectrique
- Producers: Narimane Mari
- Co-production: Blonde (Fenia Cossovitsa), joon film (Ann Carolin Renninger), Xenia Film (Mina Drouche), Allers Retours films
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Algeria, Greece, France, Germany, Qatar
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 140΄
Narimane Mari
Born in Algiers in 1969, she began her career in Paris, in various communications agencies, where she created cultural content for print and television and contributed to developing art galleries. In 2010, she founded “Allers Retours Films.” Loubia Hambra (2013), her first feature-length film won three prizes at FID and CPH:DOX in 2013 and many distinctions at nearly 40 international festivals. In February 2015, she directed for Hors Pistes at the Centre Pompidou La Vie Courante, an evolutive installation presenting an urban choreography on the collective intimacy. She also works as a producer. Her film Le Fort des fous was presented in Athens documenta 14 as an installation piece.
