Safia Benhaim
Safia Benhaim is a filmmaker. Daughter of Moroccan political refugees, her films, shown in movie festivals as well as contemporary art circuits, explore the question of exile, and strange territories between documentary and science fiction. Her film L’arrière-pays (The Interland) received the Grand Prix in one of the most important french short film festivals, Côté court.
Selected Works :
Last Things
Performance film & music - 50 min - 2013
Cap Tingis
6 min - 2012
L’Atlantide (Atlantis)
Video installation - 3 screens - 18 min – 2011
L’Arrière-Pays (The Interland)
50 min – 2009
www.safiabenhaim.com
vimeo.com/safiabenhaim
Past events
- 03.10.2014, 20:00 - 22:00, Kino Zamek, The European Competition: Block 3
Films
- La Fièvre40'
La Fièvre / A Spell of Fever
Production France 2014A feverish night in Morocco, year 2011. A child feels the presence of a spirit: it is a woman who came from the sea, returned after a long exile. The cause of her exile was political. This film is a quiet tale: a bodiless voice and visions entangle in the darkness of the night and the fever. The child of contemporary times and the political refugee come back home, they become one, they roam through strange, abandoned buildings, in search of a lost home and childhood. A voice of a man returns from the past to protect the woman and revive her lost memories. The history of decolonisation, a forgotten fight, appear and disappear in feverish hallucinations. And then a new fight, the Arab Spring in Morocco, floods the future.
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