Catalogue des films de « Emmanuelle Démoris »

Two events mark this early winter at Mafrouza. The birth of a baby boy with its accompanying awaiting, tension, joy and festivities. And the marriage of a young woman. At the back of the houses, between intimate and the sacred, among whispers,...

It is the end of summer. We enjoy the mild temperatures with a few people from Mafrouza in a relationship that is at once close and familiar. We follow their experience of time as it unfurls in a neverending present, without programme or plan....

Mohamed Khattab runs the Mafrouza grocer's shop. Cheikh, he also gives the sermon at the neighbourhood mosque on Friday. But during these days of celebration leading up to the Aïd feast, fundamentalists have taken over the mosque. The people of...

Mafrouza is a shantytown built on the site of the ancient necropolis of Alexandria in Egypt. Since thirty years, the inhabitants themselves built their houses often making use of the funeral chambers cut into the rock by the Romans in the 4th....

Mafrouza is a shantytown built on the site of the ancient necropolis of Alexandria in Egypt. Since thirty years, the inhabitants themselves built their houses often making use of the funeral chambers cut into the rock by the Romans in the 4th....

A Stone quarry near Paris. This strange and hidden place where stone is extracted has many invisible connexions with the world we live in. The film goes travelling in and out the quarry to show these connections. Monumental galleries and walls are...

A stone quarry located near Creil, to the north of Paris : a place with a memory for the evolution of work, from the old quarriers to those of today. A place that reveals how much mentalities, urban landscapes and, more generally, society have...