Paris Stalingrad
Synopsis
Summer 2016, Paris, refugees are camping in the Stalingrad district while waiting to regularize their situation. The film follows the daily life of Stalingrad district, a fron-tier-space in the heart of Paris. A physical labyrinth added to the bureaucratic labyrinth already in place – the city turns away. Controls, round-ups, police raids, fencing. How to make room, be collective? How can you live in a space that prevents you from existing? The film maps out the ordeal: water points, dark corners, isolated parks, Ping-Pong tables to cook on. By trying to survive in the street, a collective emerges and coexistence settles in. From out of the group, we hear the voice of Souleymane, a young refugee from Darfur whose poems mingle with the filmmaker’s voice-over. Souleymane walks around, wanders off, gets lost, re-appears and talks. As the film tracks the itineraries in Paris, another journey takes shape: fragmented stories evoke Libya, Vintimille, Calais. Echoes of a shared journey, whereas Paris repels and divides. From Stalingrad to the city ring roads, bodies end up isolated on the outskirts. Souleymane leaves the group, the camera follows him, a solitary escape. The collective breaks up, disappears from the frame, but the film exists as the memory of a place, Stalingrad, where it was a matter of surviving together.
Credits
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Sillage
- Co-production : Echo Films
- French distribution : La Vingt-Cinquième Heure
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Sylvie Brenet
- Directors of Photography : Hind Meddeb, Thim Naccache
- Editor : Sophie Pouleau
- Sound Recordist : Damien Tronchot
- Co-producer : Abel Nahmias
- Press Attaché (film) : Anne-Lise Kontz
- Sound Editor : Damien Tronchot
- Production Assistants : Raphaël Deslandes, Léa Sansonetti
- Foley artist : André Fèvre
- Grader : Christophe Reynaud
- Sound Mixer : Damien Tronchot
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Exclusion, Exile
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2019
- French release : 26/05/2021
- Runtime : 1 h 26 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 151.701
- Visa issue date : 19/05/2021
- Approval :
- Color type : Color
- Rating restrictions : None
