A Shantytown
Director sonia KICHAH
Countries
Duration 71 min
Synopsis
“La carrière Fontblanche” is one of the last slums of France bordering Cassis (France). A village with no name, no children or women, which houses Tunisians came in the 1970s, contract in hand to build the villas of the seaside town. In October 2005, the village improvised and unsafe where they live for 35 years was destroyed, to be replaced by a social residence. The documentary tells Sonia Kichah memory and individual stories of some of these men. Men weakened by years of exile, sacrifice, selflessness of their lives to support their families back home.
“La carrière Fontblanche” is one of the last slums of France bordering Cassis (France). A village with no name, no children or women, which houses Tunisians came in the 1970s, contract in hand to build the villas of the seaside town. In October 2005, the village improvised and unsafe where they live for 35 years was destroyed, to be replaced by a social residence. The documentary tells Sonia Kichah memory and individual stories of some of these men. Men weakened by years of exile, sacrifice, selflessness of their lives to support their families back home.