MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 21-10-24 - 21/10/2024
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00:00Welcome to Mediain TV and Zoom in this chronicle on a director, Leila Amin Demnati,
00:16a director who presented in the framework of the 24th edition of the Tanger Film Festival
00:22her latest documentary, L'Arabie Rousteau et les autres,
00:27a co-written documentary with Abdelhamid Karim.
00:31Leila Amin Demnati, it is a pleasure and an honor to be among us.
00:35Leila Amin Demnati, thank you very much for accepting our invitation,
00:38my very first question.
00:40You presented the documentary as part of the festival.
00:45The public is still quite aware.
00:47How was this documentary received?
00:49First of all, thank you for having me.
00:53Thank you Mediain TV.
00:55It is a film that was made, co-written and co-produced with Abdelhamid Karim
01:03and of course co-produced with 2M.
01:05First of all, it is the fact of being in this great national film festival,
01:13in its 24th edition,
01:16to be in the competition of feature film documentaries.
01:25First of all, it is an honor for us.
01:27It is a space where we meet a lot of people.
01:32It is a party for all of us.
01:35So it was well received.
01:39The film was seen by a lot of people who appreciated it,
01:44especially people who wanted to discover this history of football.
01:49There were a lot of testimonies from people who watched during the debate.
01:57In any case, it is a documentary to see for football lovers
02:00because we discover our great Moroccan legends.
02:04There was a lot of research because we see it in this documentary
02:08that pays homage and highlights the history of these great names of Moroccan football.
02:17Aksbiel Abimbarak or Juste Fontaine,
02:21considered the native of Marrakech.
02:26I imagine it was not easy to look for these pages of history to pay tribute.
02:33What was perhaps the hardest thing to do in this documentary that pays tribute to these legends?
02:39First of all, the idea of making this film was since 2018.
02:46While we were making our film on cycling,
02:52because we already have a film on the history of cycling in Morocco,
02:56which is about my father and many cyclists at the time.
03:01We met a lot of footballers who told us to do something about it,
03:06we don't want to fall into oblivion.
03:08The difficulty was first to find the images,
03:15to find the testimonies, to find all this panoply of archive images.
03:22It took five years of preparation, research, work.
03:28We started shooting this film in 2018,
03:36and when we started, unfortunately there was COVID-19,
03:40which forced us to stop shooting
03:46and devote ourselves much more to research.
03:50So the difficulty was in that.
03:56Besides that, there are people who are quite old,
04:00like Hassan Aqsbi,
04:03who is in love with men,
04:06how the testimonies were made,
04:09to receive us at his house.
04:11Because in this documentary, we wanted to tell the story,
04:15to go into the heart of the history of football,
04:17but to tell it by entering the history of the characters.
04:22Why? Because when we talk about history, people are afraid.
04:27And then there are those who can get bored.
04:29But when you tell the stories of men,
04:32of people who have lived this period,
04:34or their families,
04:36it gives you a breath of fresh air,
04:39it's a way to accept, to watch this film.
04:43So for us, the directors,
04:47whether it's Abdelhamid or me,
04:50we wanted to document this history of football
04:57by presenting the footballers who have really been an exploit.
05:04Because without these people,
05:06we wouldn't have had the football we have today.
05:09So Leïla Amine Demnaty,
05:11as you said, you made a first film,
05:13the little Miloudi,
05:15on Moroccan cycling,
05:17which is none other than your father.
05:19You told this story.
05:21Today, you are telling the history of football.
05:26You are in the documentary.
05:28Maybe one last question.
05:30When you make two documentaries,
05:32when you tell with this emotion,
05:34because we are moved to see how it was told.
05:38You said it so well,
05:40it's Arxby or La Juste Fontaine,
05:42who spoke with a lot of emotion.
05:46Do you want to take the leap and go towards fiction?
05:53Yes, why not.
05:55But before that,
05:57I consider that there was also fiction in this documentary.
06:02Instead of being actors,
06:04we had the real actors of life.
06:07These actors who told themselves.
06:11For example, Arxby is his son who told his story.
06:15His son lived with him during this period.
06:18As a child, he saw his father play.
06:21For Abdelrahman,
06:23there was his wife,
06:25who was a film actress.
06:28She left all her lights to marry a footballer
06:35she fell in love with.
06:37If we talk about Arxby Ben Barak,
06:41he is an icon.
06:43We also talked about Timomi, Bouderbela.
06:48All these people,
06:50this film was told in a way
06:55where we chose a child.
06:58This child is 14 years old,
07:01who evolves in the OM,
07:05that is, the Olympique de Marseille.
07:07He has Moroccan parents and a French mother.
07:12Why did we choose this young boy?
07:15Because he is representative of our current teams.
07:20This child came to Morocco to meet his cousin
07:27and play in the club where Arxby Ben Barak made his debut.
07:33This child wanted to know the history of football in his country.
07:40We took him there.
07:42He had the very difficult task of carrying the film on his shoulders
07:45when he was only 14 years old
07:47and to discover these icons.
07:52Leila, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.
07:56I remind you that you are a director
07:58and that your last two documentaries,
08:01Al-Arbi, Khusto and the others,
08:03co-written with Abdelhamid Karim,
08:06were in official competition
08:08at the 24th edition of the Tanger Film Festival.
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