The Roller, The Life, the Fight

Elettra Bisogno & Hazem Alqaddi & 83' — 2024

Hazem arrives in Belgium after a painful journey from Gaza. At the same time, Elettra also arrived in Brussels to study documentary film. Their first moments together are revealing and trigger the desire to get to know each other through the medium of film. The camera becomes the tool for listening to and transforming each other. Through the images of their lives, we are plunged into the details of the meeting of two worlds. The act of recording is an engagement to justice and their movements reveal their wish to resist to a divided society. Hazem and Elettra are confronted with the rigidity of his asylum procedure and must stay strong and united. Will they be able to face it together? It is an exile, an inner migration to reach a place where gazes are softer and more equal.

Belgium

Production : Tândor Productions (Geoffroy Cernaix et Rosine Mbakam) Coproduction : CBA, GSARA
With the support of KASK

Réalisation
Elettra Bisogno, Hazem Alqaddi
DOP
Elettra Bisogno, Hazem Alqaddi
Sound
Elettra Bisogno, Hazem Alqaddi
Image editor
Geoffroy Cernaix
Sound editor
Loic Villiot
Mix
Loic Villiot
Calibration
Baptiste Najean
Production
Tandôr Productions (Rosine Mbakam, Geoffroy Cernaix)
Image Format
HD 1.85
Sound Format
5.1, stereo
BW/Colour
Color
Languages OV
English, arabic, italian
Available subtitles
FR, EN
Festivals

• Biografilm Festival, Bologne (IT), 06/24
• Cinéma du Réel, Paris (FR), 03/24
• Cinemed – Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen, Montpellier (FR), 10/24
• Documenta Madrid (ES), 05/24
• Festival « A Films Ouverts », Bruxelles (BE), 03/24
• Festival Ciné-Palestine, Paris (FR), 05/24
• Festival du film franco-arabe de Noisy-le-sec (FR), 11/24
• FIFIB – Festival Int du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux (FR), 10/24
• International Doc and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IN), 07/24
• Les murs ne servent à rien, Dieulefit (FR), 09/24
• London Palestine Film Festival (GB), 11/24
• My first Doc, Tunis (TN), 12/24
• Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Curitiba (BR), 06/24
• Olhares do Mediterraneo (PT), 10/24
• Pour la suite du monde, Lyon (FR), 09/24

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