Quand les hommes pleurent

Quand les hommes pleurent (English: When Men Cry) is a 1999 documentary film directed by Yasmine Kassari.[1][2][3][4]

Quand les hommes pleurent
Directed byYasmine Kassari
Produced byJean-Jacques Andrien
CinematographyDominique Henri
Edited byKahina Attia
Production
companies
Les Films de la Drève
CBA (Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles)
RTBF (Radio Télévision Belge Francophone)
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
57 minutes
CountriesBelgium, Morocco

The director spent a summer in the region of Murcia alongside the clandestine workers featured in her documentary. Poems of the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwich are scattered throughout the film.[5] It was screened at a number of international film festivals.[6][7][8]

Synopsis

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The film follows "men who cry", Moroccan workers who have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in order to reach Spain, in search of a better future. These migrants soon discover the impasse in which they find themselves, stuck there in living conditions worse than those they knew at home.[9][10][11]

References

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  1. ^ "Les Films de la Drève | Quand les hommes pleurent..." www.lesfilmsdeladreve.be. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  2. ^ "Quand les hommes pleurent – CBA". cbadoc.be. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  3. ^ "Quand les hommes pleurent - Maroc/Belgique 1999 - sur Cinergie.be". Cinergie.be. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  4. ^ "ARDECHE IMAGES - Quand les hommes pleurent". www.lussasdoc.org. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  5. ^ Quand les hommes pleurent - Tënk, retrieved 2021-11-28
  6. ^ "Films | Africultures : Quand les hommes pleurent". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  7. ^ "film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire". www.film-documentaire.fr. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  8. ^ Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-424-943-3.
  9. ^ ""Quand les hommes pleurent" : le douloureux continent qu'on nomme l'exil". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2001-10-09. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  10. ^ George, Olakunle (2021-03-22). A Companion to African Literatures. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-05817-5.
  11. ^ Barlet, Olivier (2016-08-01). Contemporary African Cinema. MSU Press. ISBN 978-1-62895-270-4.