When filmmaker Karima Saïdi's mother Aïcha develops Alzheimer's at the end of her life, Karima decides to make a film portrait of her at her Brussels care home. Before oblivion descends for good.
Aïcha is becoming increasingly confused, and Karima takes her on mental journey back into her past. The filmmaker uses Aïcha's stories and a wide range of family archive material to create an impression of Aïcha's life. We start with her youth in Morocco, are shown how her husband brought her from Tangiers to Belgium, and how she later went on to raise her children as a single mother.
Aïcha's answers to her daughter's many and often repeated questions reveal the extent to which she has struggled with tradition, the position of women, and living between two cultures. And then there is the complex relationship between the two women themselves: Aïcha and her youngest daughter Karima. The daughter sparingly interweaves scenes of her mother as she is now with her personal history, in loving and poetic moments that capture life's finite and fragile nature.
PRODUCTEURS Karim Aitouna (Haut les mains Productions), Julie Frères (Dérives)
Screenings at CINÉMA PALACE (Belgium) www.cinema-palace.be/fr/film/dans-la-maison
AWARD * Audience Award (Prix du Public) /// Aflam du Sud - Festival du Cinéma Arabe 2021 (Brussels, Belgium)
FESTIVALS / SELECTIONS / SCREENINGS * World Premiere (Competition for First Appearance) /// 2020 IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2020 (Netherlands) * Sélection /// Festival Dei Popoli 2020 (Italy) * Sélection /// Aflam Festival 2021 (Marseille, France) * Selection /// Millenium Documentary Film Festival 2021 (Brussels, Belgium) * Sélection /// Faito Doc Festival 2021 (Italy) * Sélection /// Amman International Film Festival 2021 (Jordania) * Sélection /// Mediterranean Film Festival 2021 (Bosnia and Herzegovina) * Sélection /// MajorDocs Creative Documentary Film Fest 2021 (Spain) * Sélection /// Festival du film arabe de Fameck 2021 (France, Fameck) * Sélection /// Aflam du Sud 2021 (Brussels, Belgium) * Nominee /// FESPACO 2021 (Burkina Faso) * Sélection /// Festival du film Intergénérationnel 2021 (Brussels, Belgium) /// Projection le 25/11/2021, at 10AM, at cinéma Palace, with Q&A, Filmmaker in attendance ▶ https://bit.ly/3DHJtbK * Screening /// on 27/11/2021, at 8MP, Maison des Cultures Molenbeek (Brussels, Belgium), preceded by a Moroccan aperitif and followed by a debate with Filmmaker in attendance alongside Hassan Bousetta, sociologist ▶ https://bit.ly/3qZQaSM
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