Shorts Program 1—Quartiers Lointains: Self-Image

Q&A with Claire Diao and Josza Anjembe 

Quartiers Lointains, a media collective comprised of young Francophonie artists and professionals, curated this shorts program which highlights works by artists of bi-cultural descent who seek to understand and explore their dual identity and engage in a dialogue to better understand the Other.

Le Bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux
Josza Anjembe, France, 2016, 21m
French with English subtitles
Teenage Seyna faces unexpected obstacles on her mission to become a French citizen, from the disapproval of her Cameroonian father to the limitations of the camera lens.

Gagarine
Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, France, 2015, 15m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Yuri is 20. He lives with his mother in Ivry, the city where he grew up. But a demolition is approaching, and the scenery of his childhood dreams will soon disappear.

Nulle Part
Askia Traoré, France, 2014, 27m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
After a funeral, Jacky returns to his childhood neighborhood, where he reconnects with his friends and his first love.

Retour à Genoa City
Benoît Grimalt, France, 2017, 29m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Since 1989, the director’s grandma and her brother have watched the same soap opera every day at the same time. Twenty years after his departure from Nice, he returns and asks them to tell him about the 3,527 episodes he’s missed.