Samir Abdallah

Le mouvement Gutenberg

Following the assassination of young Abdennbi Guemiah by a trigger-happy man in the Gutenberg transit neighborhood in Nanterre, France, residents are fighting for justice for Abdennbi and for the relocation of the families.

Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s)

Following the appeal of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers went there to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians a "beautiful linguistic collaboration" in these "high places of spirituality” (Ramallah in Arabic) where the Israeli program of humiliation is also a “verbicidal war”. “We want to listen and make other voices heard in the din of war, that of writers, artists, academics, all those who are preparing for the future... Opposing the logic of war, not a force of "interposition but INTERPRETATION FORCES", says the French writer Christian Salmon, member of this international delegation.

Décembre 1999, Ramadan 1420, Une faim de siècle

Samir Abdallah, the director, leads his son, Nessim, a teenager, for his first fast in Ramadan, in a spiritual quest. We are at the dawn of the second millennium. In the Muslim calendar, we are in the Hijri year 1420.

Pour Titus

In September 1994 in Trappes, Abdelmohcen Asli, alias Titus, 24 years old, was stabbed in the heart by a young man from his housing estate when he intervened to prevent a fight. Three weeks later, he died of his wounds. His parents, his brother, his sisters and his friends, in shock, want to keep his memory alive. On the 40th day of his death, they each send him a declaration of love filled with images and memories. The director is the brother-in-law of the victim.

Les "Folles de la Place Vendôme"

A documentary released in 1985 about the Mothers of Place Vendôme.

Les "Folles de la Place Vendôme"

A documentary released in 1985 about the Mothers of Place Vendôme.