Alimentation Générale
In Epinay-sur-Seine, in the neighborhood called « la Source », Ali’s grocery store is the only shop still in business of the decayed shopping center. It’s also the only place left for the forsaken inhabitants of the surrounding tower blocks to meet, a shelter where they can get together and exchange. This documentary film takes us into the everyday life of a small grocery store. As customers pass by, Ali, the charismatic shopkeeper, also part-time singer, is benevolently welcoming them. This moving and often amusing chronicle shows the importance of such a place, a small shop “around the corner”, in the middle of the Projects, where in spite of difficulties and poverty, people still share user-friendliness, laughter, human warmth.
Directed by Chantal Briet · Written by Chantal Briet
Cast
- Ali Zebboudj Himself
- Jeanine Anne Herself
- Anne-Marie Pigeard Herself
- Jamaa Hemmou Himself
- Cyprien Gian Himself
- Roberto Melias Himself
- Akram Azzouz Himself
- Rabbah Seridj Himself
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