Program 2.1
Q. & A.
Moderator: Joseph Pomp is a film scholar and critic and works as an editor at Harvard University Press.
Guests: Winners of the Rough-cut Festival 2024 Lycée Français of New York
Program 2.1
J’ai 8 ans - Olga Varen et Yann Le Masson,1962,10’, France/Algeria
Made in Tunisia during the Algerian War, this film evokes the events through the stories and drawings of Algerian refugee children. They are the age of war and express in their own way the dead, the flight, the fear, the hunger. Quickly distributed, awarded prizes at the international festivals of Oberhausen and Leipzig in 1961, it obtained a visa in France in 1973, twelve years after its production.
Enfants des courants d’air - Edouard Luntz, 1959, 26’, France
Almost without dialogue, on a minimalist fictional plot - the story of a child and his grandfather - the film evokes life in a shantytown in Plaine Saint-Denis, between vacant lots and towers under construction. Like a bird fleeing its cage, the flute music of Eugène Kurtz (a student of Honegger and Messiaen) flies away in counterpoint to the drama.
La petite vendeuse de soleil - Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1998, 45, Senegal
For a long time, the sale of newspapers by auction in the streets of Dakar has been the prerogative of boys. But today Sili, a young girl of around twelve years old who gets around with the help of crutches and who begs to survive and help her blind grandmother, decides to sell newspapers like the boys. But this little world of newspaper sellers is merciless; there she will encounter pain, but also friendship shared between small people. Restored in 2K in 2018. Partners: Waka Films (Silvia Voser), Cinémathèque Afrique
Rough Cut Film Festival Winners
Abracadabra - Frédéric Back, 1970, 10’, Québec /Canada
The story of four children from around the world who try to rescue the sun from an evil sorcerer.
