2025 / France / Documentary / 32′
Directed by Hassen Ferhani
Synopsis
June 2025. Hassen Ferhani is participating in an artist-in-residence program at the Marseille prison to create a documentary work with a group of male inmates, based on a simple idea: to transform the enclosed space of the Baumettes Prison’s Image and Movement Studio into a photography studio. “I’m going in with an open mind and two points of reference: Johan Van der Keuken’s To Sang Fotostudio and Roland Barthes’s La Chambre Claire.”
Biography
A director and cinematographer, Hassen Ferhani was born in Algiers and developed his passion at the Chrysalide film club. Since Les Baies d’Alger in 2006, the director has developed a distinctive approach -a blend of reality and fiction- which he fully realized in two multi-award-winning feature-length documentaries: Dans ma tête un rond-point (2015) and 143 rue du Désert (2019).
TECHNICAL SHEET
Script Hassen Ferhani with Alan, Boy, Brandon, Johan, Karakass, Le X, Maximom, Yohan
Cinematographer Hassen Ferhani
Sound Joseph Césarini
Mix Hugo Debrie
Cast Alan, Boy, Brandon, Johan, Karakass, Le X, Maximom, Yohan
Production LIEUX FICTIFS