HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Directed by : Claire Simon

Prix FEDEORA au CROSSING EUROPE Festival 2014

A documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad. This is a motionless journey in the Gare du Nord in the company of Simon Mérabet, a friend from southern France of Algerian origin. Fleeting encounters in which each person relates his or her life in a few words before taking a train and vanishing. All of a sudden, the crowd of travellers comes to life through intersecting stories, one life then another, while globalisation forges destinies subjected to geography and the economy… The film, like a book, collects what each one writes in it: their final words before vanishing. And, in passing through all this, Simon recalls that he is an immigrant’s son.

fiche technique

With : Simon Mérabet

Author : Claire Simon

Photography : Claire Simon

Co-producers : Film Factory

Sound : Olivier Hespel

Manager of production : Nelly Mabilat

Editing : Catherine Rascon

Original soundtrack : Miles Davis

Mixage : Dominique Vieillard

Producer : Les Films d'Ici

Executive producer : Richard Copans

Partners : Procirep/Angoa

Langue : français anglais

Available version : VF-VSTA

Length : 1'40''

Format : HDCAM

ISAN : 0000-0002-FDF7-0000-Z-0000-0000-6

distribution

International sales : The Party Film Sales

Video publisher : Blaq Out

Non-commercial sales : Les Films d'Ici

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