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El Hara
A lyrical drift through the Tunis neighbourhood its Jewish residents left behind.
2017 · 16 min · Short documentary · Tunisia, France, USA
For over 700 years, thousands of Jews lived in El Hara of Tunis. Albert Memmi grew up here. As a Tunisian Jew, he struggled to find his place between the European colonizers and the Muslim colonized. Since then, the neighborhood’s Jewish residents have moved on, but Memmi’s memories still dwell here.
EL HARA visually drifts through this neighborhood 75 years after his departure, weaving together his lucid reflections on the residual effects of colonialism, domination, and emigration.
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“In a lyrically captivating journey into Tunis’ old Jewish quarter, El Hara explores the present-day echoes of the departure of its historical inhabitants in the wake of colonial and national upheavals.”
Ella Shohat, New York University
“By evoking the ambivalent emotions surrounding Jewish dislocation from Arab and Muslim spaces, it subtly touches upon the scars of rupture and loss.”
Ella Shohat, author of Taboo Memories and Diasporic Voices
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Who made it
A film by
Margaux Fitoussi
Mo Scarpelli
Director
With
Albert Memmi
Producers
Margaux Fitoussi
Cinematographer
Mo Scarpelli
Editor
Iva Radivojevik
Mo Scarpelli
A Rake Films production
18 selections
Festivals and screenings
New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center
Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
Paris
Dar Ben Achour
bibliothèque de la Médina de Tunis
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
UK Jewish Film Festival
Washington Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
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