Completed - FRENCH - Documentary, Black comedy, Jewish - 121 minutes
Why do they hate us? Is a documentary directed and embodied by Amelle Chahbi, Alexandre Amiel and Lucien Jean-Baptiste. Each of them focuses on France's relations with three sections of its population: Muslims, Jews and Black people.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Alexandre AMIEL, Amelle CHAHBI, Lucien JEAN-BAPTISTE, Sarah CARPENTIER, Maud RICHARD, Christophe LANCELLOTTI Cast : Alexandre AMIEL, Amelle CHAHBI, Lucien JEAN-BAPTISTE Producer(s) : Alexandre AMIEL (CAMERA SUBJECTIVE), Jerome SCHWAB (CAMERA SUBJECTIVE)
This three-part documentary takes an unflinching look at racism against blacks, Arabs, and Jews in France. Told from the perspective of three different directors, the films reflect their personal experiences with racism. Assembling remarkable archive material, testimonials from experts and journalists, as well as opinions from the far right, the trilogy aims to deconstruct the mechanisms of racist and anti-Semitic thought. In part one, comedian and actress Amelle Chahbi looks at the Maghrebian community in Paris to see if Arab integration is working, or if the situation is worse now than when she grew up. In part two, actor/writer/director Lucien Jean-Baptiste investigates how blacks are represented in French society with anthropologist Gilles Boëtsch, Lilian Thuram – a former soccer champion who has taken former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to task for racist remarks, and right wing radio’s Henry de Lesquen, who wants to ban what he calls “negro music.” Part three follows journalist and producer Alexandre Amiel as he meets with the head of an anti-Semitic newspaper in an attempt to understand the resurgence of Jewish prejudice in the wake of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo.
Country(ies) : FRANCE
COLCOA 2017 International PremiereFIGRA 2017