MADMEN'S FORT

LE FORT DES FOUS

By Narimane MARI

Festivals
& Awards

Thessaloniki IFF 2017
LOCARNO OPEN DOORS 2017
AWARD FOR BEST PROJECT
LOCARNO FF 2017
CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE
TORONTO IFF 2017
BFI IFF 2017
Sao Paulo IFF 2017
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, ALGERIA, GREECE, GERMANY, QATAR
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, ENGLISH, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 140 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Narimane MARI
    • Writer(s)
    • Narimane MARI
    • Producer(s)
    • Narimane MARI (Centrale Electrique (Algeria)), Fenia COSSOVITSA (Blonde (Greece))
    • Synopsis
    • Departing from material records of the early colonial “scientific expeditions” and “taming campaigns” led by the French colonizers in North Africa, the story follows a community of young nomads and wanderers as they form an imagined utopian society in response to imperialist rule. Re-enactments, improvisations, and interviews performed and conducted with the inhabitants of Algiers, Kythira Island, and the Prosfygika community in Athens, inform this work as instances of alternative temporality and autonomous space that reflects on the displacement and re-appropriation of the telling of history and re-activates memories as resistance strategies.