Samir Abdallah

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Samir Abdallah

Samir Abdallah was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Egyptian modern art pioneer Hamed Abdallah and his Danish nurse wife. He has lived in France since the age of six, where he acquired French nationality. After studying Drama and Cinema at the University of Nanterre in the early 1980s, he participated in the creation of the IM’Média Agency with his brother Mogniss, and produced numerous reports an…

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Quo Vadis?Quo Vadis? · 2006
Quo Vadis?
2006
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Décembre 1999, Ramadan 1420, Une faim de siècleDécembre 1999, Ramadan 1420, Une faim de siècle · 1999
Décembre 1999, Ramadan 1420, Une faim de siècle
1999
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Samir Abdallah, the director, leads his son, Nessim, a teenager, for his first fast in Ramadan, in a spiritual quest. We are at the dawn of the second millennium. In the Muslim calendar, we are in the Hijri year 1420.
Saïd Bouziri par lui-mêmeSaïd Bouziri par lui-même · 2009
Saïd Bouziri par lui-même
2009
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Pour TitusPour Titus · 1998
Pour Titus
1998
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In September 1994 in Trappes, Abdelmohcen Asli, alias Titus, 24 years old, was stabbed in the heart by a young man from his housing estate when he intervened to prevent a fight. Three weeks later, he died of his wounds. His parents, his brother, his sisters and his friends, in shock, want to keep his memory alive. On the 40th day of his death, they each send him a declaration of love filled with images and memories. The director is the brother-in-law of the victim.
MINGUETTES 1983 - Paix sociale ou pacification ?MINGUETTES 1983 - Paix sociale ou pacification ? · 1983
MINGUETTES 1983 - Paix sociale ou pacification ?
1983
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NANTERRE : LE MOUVEMENT GUTENBERGNANTERRE : LE MOUVEMENT GUTENBERG · 1986
NANTERRE : LE MOUVEMENT GUTENBERG
1986
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Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s)Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s) · 2004
Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s)
★ 7.02004
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Following the appeal of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers went there to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians a "beautiful linguistic collaboration" in these "high places of spirituality” (Ramallah in Arabic) where the Israeli program of humiliation is also a “verbicidal war”. “We want to listen and make other voices heard in the din of war, that of writers, artists, academics, all those who are preparing for the future... Opposing the logic of war, not a force of "interposition but INTERPRETATION FORCES", says the French writer Christian Salmon, member of this international delegation.
Marseille 1973, l'été meurtrierMarseille 1973, l'été meurtrier · 2023
Marseille 1973, l'été meurtrier
2023
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Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s)Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s) · 2004
Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s)
★ 7.02004
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Following the appeal of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers went there to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians a "beautiful linguistic collaboration" in these "high places of spirituality” (Ramallah in Arabic) where the Israeli program of humiliation is also a “verbicidal war”. “We want to listen and make other voices heard in the din of war, that of writers, artists, academics, all those who are preparing for the future... Opposing the logic of war, not a force of "interposition but INTERPRETATION FORCES", says the French writer Christian Salmon, member of this international delegation.

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Candidats pour du beur ?Candidats pour du beur ? · 2012
Candidats pour du beur ?
2012
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Looking back at the history of the struggle for true equality, we follow the daughters and sons of immigrant workers who have been nominated as candidates representing "diversity" in various election campaigns since the 2007 presidential election. On the ground, through meetings, debates, and more "intimate" encounters with candidates and actors from past struggles, a great diversity of thought emerges. But they all have the same goal: not to be just "candidates for Beurs." With many activists from working-class neighborhoods, from Clichy-sous-Bois to Marseille, via Roubaix, and candidates Mouloud Aounit, Kamel Hamza, Faouzi Lamdaoui, Halima Boumedienne, Omar Slaouti, Samia Ghali, Karim Zeribi, Rama Yade, and others... Will these "new faces" of the Republic be in the picture when the votes are counted, or will they simply be "candidates for the Beurs"?

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