Hi, I hope you are fine, my name is Hamid. In the profile, my name is Mohammadi. I would like to talk about Apatride (Stateless) by Narjiss Nejjar, section Forum. I saw a lot of films in my life, from Hollywood, from Bollywood  &&&& … with perfect lighting, amazing camera shots, professional actors, but most of them with repeating stories and predictable plots. Now, the film Apatride differs from them and tells a very special story: A young woman gets deported in 1975 from Algeria to Marocco. 

She becomes stateless. In order to be able to get a marocan citizienship, she tries to find a man that marries her. Everything what she does is driven by this need, she has sex with one of the young guys who lives in the house. A couple of days later she sees him with his girl friend. She starts a relationship with the father of the young man, who is blind. She feeds him, cleans his appartment and washes him. After some hopeless weeks she decides to go back to Algeria. She crosses the border, wades trough the river – suddenly black – we hear shots –  the end.

I like the movie very much. The story is very touching and painful. I’ve encountered a lot of these things in my country Iran and in the Islamic countries. I have observed older mens with money, marriying young woman. If it is the choice of the young woman, it’s ok. In France for example Macron is married to his teacher, who is much older. That’s fine, because it’s her and his choice. In Apatride the young woman is forced to find a man in order to safe her life. The film was shot a lot with hand hold camera, a lot of unsteady camera movements that I didn’t like. I would have had prefered a more steady camera. I would love to discuss with the director Narjiss Nejjar about her idea behind the visuell concept.

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