Auber 89
Synopsis
After an accident has left actor Fatsah Bouyahmed with memory loss, previously unseen archival footage from Aubervilliers – the housing estate on the outskirts of Paris where he grew up – help him to reconnect with both his own personal past and the collective memory of his community. Filmed in the 1980s when an ambitious urban renewal project was underway, the images capture a neighborhood striving to improve its living conditions and imagine a better future. As Fatsah revisits the footage forty years later, memories of family, friendship, music, and daily life resurface alongside the social tensions of the time: the growing racism, inequality, and exclusion. Moving between past and present, Auber 89 revisits a fleeting moment of hope before disillusionment reshaped the Parisian suburbs, while the textures of television and VHS ground the story in the sensory world of the 80s.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Label Vidéo
- Co-productions : Vià93, entre2prises
- Foreign production company : Revolver
- Film exports/foreign sales : Lightdox
Full credits (6)
- Executive producers : Véronique Holley, Raffaele Ventura
- Screenwriters : Giuseppe Schillaci, Gabrielle Culand
- Director of Photography : Zoltán Hauville
- Music Composer : Thibault Frisoni
- Editor : Christine Bouteiller
- Participant : Fatsah Bouyahmed
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2026
- French release :
- Runtime : 1 h 19 min
- Current status :
- Approval :
