DOCUMENTAIRE, 49' CHOUCHA, une insondable indifférence Prix du meilleur moyen-métrage Festival Vues d'Afrique (2016)
Réalisation : Sophie Bachelier & Djibril Diallo
SYNOPSIS
Un camp au sud de la Tunisie, Choucha. Le désert.
Le 30 juin 2013, le camp ferme : l’eau, l’électricité sont coupées. Les ONG se retirent, plus de soins.
Pourtant 700 rescapés du conflit libyen, réfugiés sans pays d’accueil et déboutés de leur demande d’asile
survivent dans ce lieu fantomatique depuis deux ans et demi. Refusant l’intégration locale suite à l’attaque du
camp par un village voisin, leurs papiers ayant expirés, les familles sont prises au piège d’une situation
kafkaïenne. Survivre au milieu du désert ou tenter l’improbable aventure maritime pour Lampédusa via la Libye ?
Leurs témoignages nous interrogent sur les stratégies mises en place pour aider et sécuriser les victimes des
conflits actuels. Comment ce système, censé protéger, finit-il par exclure les plus vulnérables ?
A camp in southern Tunisia, Choucha. The desert.
On June 30th 2013 the camp closed : water and electricity were cut off. The Non-Governmental Organizations
withdrew ; no more healthcare. Yet 700 escapees from the Libyan conflict, refugees with no country to go to, their
requests for asylum rejected, have survived in that ghost place for two and a half years. Refusing to integrate into
the locality following an attack on the camp by a neighbouring village, and their papers having expired, the
families are trapped in a Kafkaesque situation. Should they try to survive in the middle of the desert, or attempt
the dangerous sea journey to Lampedusa via Libya ?
Their testimonies make us question the strategies adopted to help and protect the victims of current conflicts.
How is it that the system which is thought to protect them ends up by excluding the most vulnerable ?
Durée : 49
Production : DAMU et d'eau fraîche
Image : Sophie Bachelier & Djibril Diallo
Montage : Sophie Bachelier et Djibril Diallo
Son : Djibril Diallo
Prix / Aides : Festival Vues d'Afrique, Prix du meilleur moyen-métrage, 2016
DOCUMENTAIRE, 49'
CHOUCHA, une insondable indifférence
Prix du meilleur moyen-métrage
Festival Vues d'Afrique (2016)
Sophie Bachelier & Djibril Diallo
A camp in southern Tunisia, Choucha. The desert. On June 30th 2013 the camp closed : water and electricity were cut off. The Non-Governmental Organizations withdrew ; no more healthcare. Yet 700 escapees from the Libyan conflict, refugees with no country to go to, their requests for asylum rejected, have survived in that ghost place for two and a half years. Refusing to integrate into the locality following an attack on the camp by a neighbouring village, and their papers having expired, the families are trapped in a Kafkaesque situation. Should they try to survive in the middle of the desert, or attempt the dangerous sea journey to Lampedusa via Libya ? Their testimonies make us question the strategies adopted to help and protect the victims of current conflicts. How is it that the system which is thought to protect them ends up by excluding the most vulnerable ?