Pitch: From the Valvert psychiatric hospital in Marseilles, a group of patients question the notion of hospitality by carrying out a playful and rigorous investigation into the motif of the door, that usual and symbolic object of our rituals of welcome and confinement.

«It takes a second to close a door, and years to open it.”

Directed by: Pilar Arcila and Jean-Marc Lamoure

Camera: Jean-Marc Lamoure

Sound: Frédéric Salles and Gilles Cabau

On a lonely farm in rural Somalia, the widowed Qalifo and her college-age son Asad raise camels. Asad lives in the shadow of his late father’s violent reputation and bristles at Qalifo’s strict parenting, escaping to a nearby village whenever he can. And when Asad learns his girlfriend has been seeing another boy, an American visitor, a confrontation is inevitable.

  TIFF 2024 premiere – FIPRESCI Prize 2024 award winner

Written and directed by K’Naan Warsame

DOP César Charlone

Sound recordist Frédéric Salles

Production Andrea Calderwood – Potboiler Productions, Production serviced by BlueSky Africa

 

 

Unable to mourn, Raoul, in his fifties, arrives in the city where his deceased daughter lived. He discovers her secret life, a young, feminine, violent, musical world. He wants to understand, destroy, and mend. But where will this too intimate investigation lead him? Diving into a life and a city that are not his own, is it a journey towards death or rebirth?

 

Written and Directed by Marcia Romano & Benoit Sabatier

DOP Nicolas Eveilleau

Sound Fred Salles

Production Frédéric Dubreuil, Envie de Tempête Productions

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“If psychiatry is the medical technique that aims to enable man to no longer be a stranger to his environment, I must assert that the Arab, perpetually alienated in his own country, lives in a state of absolute depersonalization.” – Frantz Fanon, Lettre au ministre résident, décembre 1956.

Written and directed by Abdenour Zahzah

DOP Aurélien Py

Production Sound Mixer Fred Salles

Production Atlas Films (Algeria), Shellac Sud (France)

 

Storyline: The film will take us at the heart of operational and decision-making bodies of the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA), as well as close to some emblematic actors of Malian civil society. MISSION will shed a light on the limitations of interventionist policies of the international community and those of a country struggling to renew its own democratic process.

Also know as: “Mission”

Director: Christophe Gargot

DOP: Jérôme Olivier, Fred Serve, Matthieu Giombini

Sound: Frédéric Salles

Sound design and creation for the exhibition “Sahara, mondes connectés:

Multichannel spatialized sound track for the first big exhibition room  “Suivre les traces” (” follow the traces”)

Editing of sound interviews.

Ambient tracks for several exhibition zones.

Cette exposition est née de la rencontre entre Titouan Lamazou, artiste-voyageur, et Charles Grémont, historien à l’Institut de Recherche et de Développement. CENTRE DE LA VIEILLE CHARITÉ – MARSEILLE Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens 10 MAI – 01 SEPTEMBRE 2019

 

Storyline: Simona has abandoned her family long ago but when she hears her grandmother is dying she goes back to say goodbye and from her home village starts a dangerous journey to another side of Lithuania looking for her lost father and emotional anchorage.

Directed par Sharunas Bartas

Production Studija Kinema (Lithuania), KinoElektron (France)

Sound design and creation of several sound tracks for the exhibition “Darwin, l’original”:

Spatialized multi-channel sound track for a video installation “Le Talus enchevêtré”.

Narrative sound tracks for several interactive animated miniature sets.

Ambient sound tracks for several zone of the exhibition.

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Synopsis:

Watt ! Archipels: a series of five short off-beat and poetic films. An unusual encounter between music and image, a dive into the intimacy of artistic creations whose stage are places of productivity.

Watt! amplifies the sound and musical echoes of an effervescent Mediterranean youth, connected to the web and to current music, hip-hop on the front. In 2013, five nomadic artistic residences took the tempo of the emblematic capitals of rap and the new independent places of the Arab world where, from Cairo to Tunis, the artists speak for the aspirations of freedom.

 

Written and directed by Stéphane Barbato

DOP Nicolas Petris

Sound engineer Frédéric Salles

Producer Antonin Dedet

With Under Kontrol, Raphael Imbert, Cyril Benhamou, Simon Sieger, DJ Creestal, Fred Salles, Ahmad Compaoré, Meryem Saci, Lou Penza, DJ Rebel, TOX, Watcha Clan et Raashan Ahmad.

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See Episode 1: Play Ground
See Episode 2: R.E.S.C.A.P.S
See Episode 3: Chroma Trauma
See Episode 4: K2013
See Episode 5: Bonheur Intérieur Brut

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«Sibongile Mbambo is a multi-talented artist, born in Cape-town, South Africa, who lives currently in south of France. She delivers with a very special emotion the compositions she wrote in her native idiom, the Xhosa.
Here she offers her voice to a sophisticated cross-cultural blend, her warm tone intertwined with delicate acoustic guitars, serene beats of percussion, an airy and spirited flute, or an unexpected overtone singing. A subtle and enchanting combination.”

Sibongile Mbambo : lead & backing vocals, percussions.
Fred Salles : guitar
Dimitri Reverchon : percussions
Lamine Diagne : flute, Sax, mouth-harp, overtone singing, Duduk.

 

Recorded with Dimitri Reverchon – Studio Black Meroo – La Ciotat

Mixed by Yul Edorh – Studio Da Town – Marseille

Mastering by François Fanelli -Studio Sonic Mastering – Marseille

Listen and purchase the album sur Bandcamp