Catalogue des films de « Simon Arazi »


16 films
By the Throat
Montage | Belgique | 2022

Starting from a security check procedure at the entrance to the Tel Aviv airport, "By The Throat" takes us on the exploration of a more deeply engraved border, albeit an invisible one. A border that defines the sounds we can emit and the words we...

Kasongo (im)matériel
Montage | Belgique | 2021

"Kasongo (im)materiel" explores the forgotten history of the Swahili-Arab in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their trajectory from oppressors to oppressed along with the local adoption of their culture and language mirror the tensions and...

Juste un mouvement
Montage | Belgique, France | 2021

In Senegal, the name of Omar Blondin Diop is associated with an unpunished state crime. In France, he has mostly gone down in history as a Marxist activist featuring in "La Chinoise", a fiction of political anticipation by Jean-Luc Godard. Today...

Parolier
Montage | Belgique | 2020

417 love songs 18 notebooks 49 years of career 13 gold records 1 Eurovision victory in 1986 Rosario Marino, an Italian immigrant, worker, then lyricist of hit variety songs, left the factory to make a living. Rachel, his director daughter, takes a...

Father My Brother
Montage | Belgique | 2019

À quoi tient une vie qui menace de tomber en morceaux ? Une histoire entre père et fils relatant la transmission à l'heure de l'oubli.

Totems & Tabous
Montage | Belgique | 2019

An impressive palace, the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Brussels. Now renovated, it has been renamed the Africa Museum. A voice coming from Africa echoes throughout its halls... It tells us about the colonial origins of this place. Today, it...

Charleroi, le pays aux 60 montagnes
Montage | Belgique | 2018

J'ai toujours voulu quitter Charleroi et toujours eu envie de filmer Charleroi - y capter les révolutions du temps. Une ville que je retrouve dans l’entre-deux d'un passé enfoui et d'un avenir qui n’est pas encore. C'est le portrait d’une...

Faites sortir les figurants
Montage | Belgique | 2018

Le figurant, c’est cette silhouette sans rôle, sans nom et sans voix qui traverse les décors pour que les scènes d’un film paraissent "vraies". Autant d’archétypes fragmentant le peuple en multiples communautés. Mais qui se cache...

Belle de Nuit
Montage | Belgique | 2016

"Please mention that I am a painter, a writer and a revolutionary whore !" Grisélidis Réal The film is an immersion in the writings of Grisélidis Réal, scandalous public woman and tells the personal and dazzling journey of an extraordinary...

Birobidjan
Montage | France | 2015

In 1934, Staline created an independent state for communist Jews from the Soviet Union and around the world. Families immigrated from Ukraine, France, Brooklyn... After the purges and auto-da-fés of the 20th century, what is left of this country,...


16 films