Hafa

During a research stay in Tangier, I worked around the story of Omar Ba, a Senegalese migrant in transit. From this experience emerged an exchange of films and objects. A child’s sandal, a piece of fabric, a jerrycan, a prayer notebook became the obsessive focus of another quest, a new mythology. This raises the question of how to preserve the memory of these migratory narratives. Here, staged in a cinematic essay with the dancer Barbara Sarreau, this question is explored through the lens of tragedya tragedy from which we will surely have to learn to be reborn one day...

Director

Malik Nejmi