Les Films de barbarie | festival de courts-métrages

Some films are born in a classroom, a community center, a care facility, a prison, a place to live, or a struggle. In no time, from writing to editing, these films made by many hands give rise to hybrid forms where spontaneity sets the tone. They don’t look like anything we usually see, and they’re the ones we want to stand up for. The Cinéma Siba collective is launching the first edition of the Les films de barbarie festival, dedicated to workshop films and collective creation. Siba, in Moroccan Darija, means what escapes control: we believe in it, for films as well as workshops. We place it at the heart of our filmmaking practice, and together with distinctive groups, we make films together that we would never have made alone. Yet these films remain on the margins of distribution circuits, for lack of places to screen them. Here’s ours: around fifteen short films made in Marseille and the surrounding area, presented in three screenings at Le Gyptis cinema and Videodrome 2 , with the people who made them in attendance. We open with « Cour sur le bitume », stories that tell of the city and all its moods. The next day, we’ll meet at Shed Publishing to talk about the practice, with those who lead workshops. Practical questions: how can we consider anti-racism and anti-ableism from the very first meeting? How can we create outside the institutional framework? What place does the author have in a collective creation? In the evening, two screenings, two directions. « Bismillah c les ténèbres » starts in Y: four fantastical dystopian worlds where everything goes haywire—watch out for the special effects, handmade, local, and preservative-free! Then « Itinéraire bis » brings us to a crossroads: wandering thoughts, an escape in the style of a western, an arrival from exile, and a final takeoff to another planet that we hope will be less khene. Thanks to the volunteers and the teams at the venues hosting us and putting their trust in us. We love you.

Elina Chared, Samy Sidali, filmmakers, and Zineb Kharroubi, distributor, with the Cinema Siba collective

Les films de barbarie at V2