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Doc | 00:20 | SWITZERLAND
WRITTEN & DIRECTY BY LIONEL RUPP
In August 1961, a Jewish family from Casablanca left Morocco in a hurry. More than 60 years later, the family matriarch recounts what led the family to leave their homeland overnight. Beyond the circumstances of this exile, the film sheds light on a facet of the split within the Judeo-Arab world and the need to find a place to live where one can feel “at home”.
Biography
Lionel Rupp, Director
Born in 1983, he has made several short films that have competed in international festivals and won several awards. He graduated from HEAD – Geneva in 2011. Since then, he has collaborated on Zooscope’s individual and collective projects since its creation in 2008. In 2012, he and his brother Adrien Rupp directed their first feature film, Quai Ouest, an eponymous adaptation of the work by Bernard-Marie Koltès. He co-directs Heimatland, a feature film about Switzerland in the face of imminent catastrophe. The film is in the international competition at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival. In 2017, the documentary A Campaign of Their Own, which recounts the American elections from the perspective of activists, was selected at Vision du Réel, Karlovy Vary and Locarno. He directed a sequel in 2022, The Last Campaign, which recounts an election campaign turned upside down by the pandemic. Meanwhile, in 2019 he co-directs the documentary No Apologies, about police violence and systemic racism.
Filmography (selection)
The Last Campaign, doc, 2022No Apologies, doc, 2019
A Campaign of Their Own, doc, 2017
Quai Ouest, fiction, 2012
