Quand les hommes pleurent

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Quand les hommes pleurent
Directed byYasmine Kassari
Produced byJean-Jacques Andrien
CinematographyDominique Henri
Edited byKahina Attia
Production
companies
Les Films de la Drève
CBA (Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles)
RTBF (Radio Télévision Belge Francophone)
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
57 minutes
Countries Belgium, Morocco

Quand les hommes pleurent (English: When Men Cry) is a 1999 documentary film directed by Yasmine Kassari. [1] [2] [3] [4]

The director spent a summer in the region of Murcia alongside the clandestine workers featured in her documentary. Poems of the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwich are scattered throughout the film. [5] It was screened at a number of international film festivals. [6] [7] [8]

Synopsis

The film follows "men who cry", Moroccan workers who have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in order to reach Spain, in search of a better future. These migrants soon discover the impasse in which they find themselves, stuck there in living conditions worse than those they knew at home. [9] [10] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Les Films de la Drève | Quand les hommes pleurent..." www.lesfilmsdeladreve.be. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  2. ↑ "Quand les hommes pleurent – CBA". cbadoc.be. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  3. ↑ "Quand les hommes pleurent - Maroc/Belgique 1999 - sur Cinergie.be". Cinergie.be. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  4. ↑ "ARDECHE IMAGES - Quand les hommes pleurent". www.lussasdoc.org. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  5. ↑ Quand les hommes pleurent - Tënk , retrieved 2021-11-28
  6. ↑ "Films | Africultures : Quand les hommes pleurent". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  7. ↑ "film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire". www.film-documentaire.fr. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  8. ↑ Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN   978-977-424-943-3.
  9. ↑ ""Quand les hommes pleurent" : le douloureux continent qu'on nomme l'exil". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2001-10-09. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  10. ↑ George, Olakunle (2021-03-22). A Companion to African Literatures. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-1-119-05817-5.
  11. ↑ Barlet, Olivier (2016-08-01). Contemporary African Cinema. MSU Press. ISBN   978-1-62895-270-4.
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