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00:00Welcome to Medea TV and Zoom in this chronicle about a passionate director who will take you to the Hindmedeb Sudan,

00:19which was in the official competition of the 21st edition of the International Film Festival of Marrakech.

00:25Hindmedeb, it's a pleasure and an honor to be with you.

00:30Hind, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.

00:33Your film is called Sudan, remember, but in Arabic, Sudan and Rally.

00:37It's my favorite title.

00:39As I was saying, we want to tell you about Hind and Rally,

00:43because it's a fascinating, beautiful film where there is poetry.

00:47First, a feeling about his selection for the official competition.

00:52For me, it's a very, very special moment, because Morocco is my country of heart.

00:59It's the country of my mother, where I spent almost all my holidays since I was born,

01:05where I lived at certain times.

01:07And so it's a festival that is different from all the other festivals I've been able to do before,

01:14because here I feel at home and I'm happy that Moroccans can finally discover a film that I made.

01:23And also, for another reason, I'm here in Marrakech with Shajan,

01:27who is Sudanese, who is the main character of the film.

01:31And Shajan, I went to her country, I followed her,

01:35and when she arrived in Marrakech, what she told me touched me a lot.

01:39She told me, you came to see my country, now I come to see your country.

01:43And she was also very, very moved.

01:45So for us, it's mostly more than the question of the fact that it's a big festival,

01:52that it's important for the film, it's important from a personal point of view.

01:57So precisely, Hind, we feel your involvement in this documentary,

02:02which is carried by this Arab-Sudanese poetry.

02:07Was it a choice from the beginning to put these words,

02:10this strength, this fervor in these young Sudanese?

02:14The story of this film is a series of events that are embedded in each other

02:22and that made this film come to life.

02:24Nothing was planned.

02:26And at the same time, there was, instinctively,

02:30everything I filmed and what makes us get to this film.

02:35And it was, let's say, a great attention to everything that was going on

02:41that made this film come to life.

02:43But above all, what I wanted to say is that it's a film, it's a story of friendship.

02:47And I had not planned that there would be poetry.

02:51I had absolutely nothing planned.

02:53I made a film before, called Paris-Stalingrad,

02:56which I also shot for personal reasons,

02:59because there were thousands of refugees in a neighborhood

03:02where I lived for a very long time, next to the Stalingrad subway.

03:05The film is called Paris-Stalingrad.

03:07And a situation of great injustice and great violence

03:10that was done to these exiled people who were asking for political asylum in France,

03:14who were coming from countries at war.

03:16And when I shot Paris-Stalingrad,

03:18I made friends with Sudanese, with whom I am still friends today.

03:22And if I made this film, it was thanks to a poet called Hassan Yassin,

03:26who lives in Paris.

03:28And when we finished shooting Paris-Stalingrad,

03:30when we presented the film, the revolution began in Sudan.

03:32And my Sudanese friends in Paris told me,

03:34but you have to go see our country, the doors of our country are opening.

03:37After the fall of Omar al-Bashir,

03:39a very closed country in the outside world for 30 years.

03:42And they told me, we are going to help you,

03:44we are going to give you the coordinates of our family and our friends.

03:46You will not be alone.

03:48And so I took the plane and I went to Sudan

03:53and I arrived in the middle of the democratic sitting in Khartoum.

03:56And there I literally dived into a bath of beauty,

04:00because the Sudanese have set up a utopian city

04:03around the army headquarters

04:05to ask the Madaniya, a citizen state,

04:07that is, to ask that their country be returned to them,

04:09which had been confiscated from them for 30 years by a dictatorship

04:12which at the same time plundered resources, created wars,

04:15massacred people in the name of a radical Islam

04:19who could not stand that there could be other religions in the country.

04:26There are animists, there are Christians in Sudan,

04:28there are 500 different tribes.

04:30So I really dived and discovered this poetry.

04:34And it was after the editing that we decided to build the film

04:39around poems and songs.

04:41So Hidna, maybe one last question,

04:44I was saying, we hear you in this Sudan,

04:51but your documentary is really touching.

04:56We are very moved, we are very moved.

04:58We discover, we Moroccans, this African country,

05:04we discover this youth.

05:06Maybe this question about this youth today,

05:11this youth of this 21st century and this desire to see things change.

05:16I would start by saying that what touched me the most

05:19is the Arabic language in Sudan.

05:21And we have this Arabic language in common.

05:23And that's what's very beautiful about this space,

05:26from Morocco to Iraq, we share the same language.

05:29And we share the same love for poetry.

05:31And that's what makes us special.

05:33And I think that we, people from Morocco to Iraq,

05:37we have to get closer to each other

05:40to create a real space.

05:42For me, that's the future of this region.

05:46This language that we have in common,

05:48and we don't put enough things in common.

05:50When I arrived in Sudan, I recognized myself

05:53in the beauty of Sudanese poetry,

05:55in the beauty of the struggle of these young Sudanese,

05:57in their hope of having a better life,

06:00in their desire and their passion for freedom.

06:03And I, who was born and grew up in France,

06:05the French Revolution has always been,

06:08it was taught to us,

06:10it has always been like that in a corner of my head.

06:12And the French Revolution gave rise to great literature.

06:15And Victor Hugo is a child of this revolution,

06:17even if he arrives much later.

06:19And he wrote a poem that I always had in mind,

06:22which came to me in a second time,

06:27after seeing the power of Sudanese poetry,

06:29where people recite poetry

06:31as if it were a question of life or death.

06:34And Victor Hugo, in a poem he wrote

06:37to defend himself in court against an attack,

06:39because he did not stop being attacked,

06:41and he was also a political man,

06:42and sometimes even politically,

06:44he responded with poetry, as in the film.

06:46And so it's a poem where he says,

06:48because the word we know is a living being,

06:51the hand of the thinker trembles and vibrates when writing it.

06:55And that's what I saw in action in Sudan.

06:59So I would say that the Sudanese are the children,

07:02are the Victor Hugo of the 21st century.

07:05And they are also those who show us the way.

07:10I think it's not just a film about Sudan,

07:13it's a universal film about the desire for freedom,

07:16the desire also to recover its country.

07:23All these countries that are confiscated from the population in Africa,

07:28when we look at the current situation,

07:31Syria has been completely destroyed,

07:33Iraq has been completely destroyed,

07:35Yemen is still at war,

07:36Libya is still at war,

07:38in a catastrophic situation.

07:40And all these countries that I knew well,

07:42that I crossed with my father and my mother,

07:44my mother lived in Damascus,

07:45I knew Syria before the war,

07:47my father raised me by telling me about the thousand and one nights,

07:50the evening while I was sleeping,

07:51and I always had in mind this image of Baghdad,

07:54of Harun al-Rashid,

07:56who disguises himself by praying at night,

07:58and who walks in his city to hear what his people say about him.

08:01So I grew up with all these myths,

08:03and I have the feeling that since I was born,

08:06there has been a meticulous destruction of these places,

08:09which are the cradle of civilization,

08:11and let's never forget that Sudan is also the country of the pharaohs.

08:15And we always talk about Egypt,

08:17but there are pyramids in Sudan,

08:19and a civilization that is 10,000 years old.

08:22There were women who were queens,

08:24the Kandakats,

08:25so 10,000 years before Jesus Christ,

08:27the Kandakats,

08:28were women who ruled the kingdom of couches,

08:31it was in Sudan.

08:32And these women repelled the Roman invasions.

08:35So it's not surprising that even today,

08:37Sudanese women are still so powerful,

08:39and that they were,

08:41how can I say,

08:42at the forefront of this revolution.

08:44And it is above all a feminist revolution

08:46to which I attended,

08:48and that's why I was very touched.

08:51Yes, Madam, thank you very much.

08:53I know that we can stay with you for hours,

08:55given the passion and love that you carry,

08:57in any case,

08:58for what we saw in this film.

09:01So, Sudan, remember,

09:03Sudan, ya ghali,

09:04because as I told you...

09:05Sudan, ya ghali,

09:07ya ard al hurriya.

09:09It's a song that starts like that.

09:10And as Sudan, ya ghali,

09:11was introducible in French or English,

09:14I chose the title

09:15Sudan, remember us,

09:17in English,

09:18because it is the reference to the last poem of the film.

09:20So if you go to see the film,

09:21you will understand the title of the film.

09:23Thank you very much, Hede.

09:24Madam, thank you.

09:25And thank you, dear viewers,

09:27for your loyalty.

09:28Stay with us.

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#Chronique_culture / Interview avec la réalisatrice Hind Meddeb - 04/12/2024

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