Nacer Khemir

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Les Baliseurs du désert
6.5

Les Baliseurs du désert

Apr 30, 1986

Les Baliseurs du désert
1986 95 min 14 vues
Un instituteur est nommé dans le désert du Sud tunisien pour enseigner la grammaire dans un village où il n'y a pas d'école. Il découvre un univers singulier et irréel, où les enfants veulent faire pousser un jardin dans un désert dont les hommes recherchent les limites. Amoureux de la fille du cheikh qui l'héberge, il se laisse finalement envoûter par le monde de sable et le chant andalou de ses baliseurs. Dans ce conte, la magie et le réel s'imbriquent pour chanter la beauté du désert. Le cinéaste, par l'attention portée à la composition des plans et des séquences, traités comme des tableaux, et par la poétique de son écriture rend hommage à la splendeur de la culture arabe
Drama
Die Tunisreise
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Die Tunisreise

Sep 01, 2007

Die Tunisreise
2007 76 min 1 vues
Retracing the trip to Tunisia that painter Paul Klee took in 1914, Tunisian filmmaker and painter Nacer Khemir leads viewers on a journey of discovery into Arabian culture.
Documentary
L'Alphabet de Ma Mère
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L'Alphabet de Ma Mère

Jan 01, 2008

L'Alphabet de Ma Mère
2008 32 min 1 vues
An old woman is sitting with motionless and two eyes closed. Suddenly, a visitor shows up in the courtyard of the house while she is looking at the sunlight through a window. The turtle and a door open onto her memories and it makes her think of a memory about a rosary. The images of an unforgettable past remain in her mind with longing about her missing son.
Par où commencer ?
4.5

Par où commencer ?

Oct 30, 2014

Par où commencer ?
2014 100 min 1 vues
Il y en Tunisie autour de vingt mille cafés mais à peine dix salles de cinéma. Dans le passé nous, les arabes, avons raté la révolution de l'imprimerie. Je me demande, si aujourd'hui, nous ne sommes pas en train de rater la révolution de l'image. « Par où Commencer ? » est un film -long métrage- réalisé dans l'urgence. Une fiction politique qui essaie de répondre, même à travers l'utopie, à l'espoir suscité par cette nouvelle Tunisie en devenir.
Yasmina et les 60 noms de l’amour
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Yasmina et les 60 noms de l’amour

Jan 01, 1970

Yasmina et les 60 noms de l’amour
1970 93 min 1 vues
“In 1992 I bought a small mini-DV camera to film my diary and fix my memories, which have become “transparent” due to my nomadic life. When I returned to my village, I learned that an attempt had been made to poison my great aunt Yasmina. I went to visit her and that's how I started this movie without knowing it. Very quickly I was caught up in Yasmina's oral novel and its great secret. I was working at the time, in Europe, on my exhibition "The 60 Names of Love". My life was divided between two exiles, here and there, between the Gregorian calendar and the Hegira calendar, between the drama of Yasmina and my journey to the heart of the Arabic language and The 60 Names of love.” Nacer Khemir
Loving Wallada
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Loving Wallada

Jan 01, 1970

Loving Wallada
1970 90 min 1 vues
Wallada, the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs, al-Mustakfi murdered in 1025, asserted herself throughout the 11th century as both a poetess and a free woman. The first European woman to hold a literary salon, she surrounded herself with the artistic and the cultured elite of Cordoba of the time. The film is both the portrait of this century, with its contrasts that saw both Ibn Hazm, author of ‘Tawk al-Hamama’, a manuscript on love and lovers, and the rise of the Andalusian poetry and chant, passing through the influence of Ziryab’s school on music, fashion, fragrance and the formation of a refined elite that eventually spread all over al-Andalus and beyond. The film also tells Wallada and the great poet Ibn Zaydun’s unhappy love story, while evocating the civil war and the fall of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus.
En passant… avec André Miquel
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En passant… avec André Miquel

Dec 31, 2010

En passant… avec André Miquel
2010 62 min 1 vues
This is a film about a man, with a peculiar itinirary, who worked hard to build a bridge between the Arab and the French cultures. A kind of testimony, alternating narration and conversations where the evocation of oneself becomes a curiosity of the other. There are men, whom by their achivements, bring shorelines closer to each other, Andé Miquel is one of them. The film tells why and how a young man from the Languedoc region in France, dreams one day of the other shore of the mediteriranean sea and is passionately interested in the language and Arab cultures to the point that it becomes a total vocation. Sometimes an encounter, a hazard, proves to be irreplaceable, indispensable and finally a destiny.
Looking for Muhyiddin
1

Looking for Muhyiddin

Apr 14, 2014

Looking for Muhyiddin
2014 183 min 1 vues
A man (played by the filmmaker Nacer Khemir) returns home to Tunis to bury his mother. After the burial, his father gives him an "amana" to be handed to a certain Sheikh named Muhyiddin. Taken by his father's request, the man immediately sets out on an epic journey to find the long lost Sheikh and deliver the "amana."
Drama
Looking for Muhyiddin
1

Looking for Muhyiddin

Apr 14, 2014

Looking for Muhyiddin
2014 183 min 1 vues
A man (played by the filmmaker Nacer Khemir) returns home to Tunis to bury his mother. After the burial, his father gives him an "amana" to be handed to a certain Sheikh named Muhyiddin. Taken by his father's request, the man immediately sets out on an epic journey to find the long lost Sheikh and deliver the "amana."
Drama
Sheherazade: Words Against Death
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Sheherazade: Words Against Death

Oct 16, 2011

Sheherazade: Words Against Death
2011 80 min 1 vues
The collected work known as "One Thousand and One Nights" survived for centuries through generations of Arab storytellers, and is now recognized as an integral part of world literature. In this filmed performance, storyteller/filmmaker Nacer Khemir sits on chair in the middle of a dimly lit stage and deploys the magic of words to take us on a journey of the imagination. This simple set-up may not seem like much, but it offers the listener an extraordinarily colorful experience and brilliantly emphasizes the oral nature of the work. As we listen to the expertly told stories, we are equally charmed by their intricacies and entranced by their interconnectedness. Even though Khemir illustrates some of the stories with beautifully filmed sequences, the audience's ability to listen is paramount here. Sheherazade used words to avoid impending death, Khemir uses the art of storytelling to breathe a new life into this ancient masterwork.
L'histoire du pays du bon dieu
1

L'histoire du pays du bon dieu

Jan 01, 1970

L'histoire du pays du bon dieu
1970 137 min 1 vues
The collected work known as "One Thousand and One Nights" survived for centuries through generations of Arab storytellers, and is now recognized as an integral part of world literature. In this filmed performance, storyteller/filmmaker Nacer Khemir sits on chair in the middle of a dimly lit stage and deploys the magic of words to take us on a journey of the imagination. This simple set-up may not seem like much, but it offers the listener an extraordinarily colorful experience and brilliantly emphasizes the oral nature of the work. As we listen to the expertly told stories, we are equally charmed by their intricacies and entranced by their interconnectedness. Even though Khemir illustrates some of the stories with beautifully filmed sequences, the audience's ability to listen is paramount here. Sheherazade used words to avoid impending death, Khemir uses the art of storytelling to breathe a new life into this ancient masterwork.
L'Alphabet de Ma Mère
1

L'Alphabet de Ma Mère

Jan 01, 2008

L'Alphabet de Ma Mère
2008 32 min 1 vues
An old woman is sitting with motionless and two eyes closed. Suddenly, a visitor shows up in the courtyard of the house while she is looking at the sunlight through a window. The turtle and a door open onto her memories and it makes her think of a memory about a rosary. The images of an unforgettable past remain in her mind with longing about her missing son.
Whispering Sands
1

Whispering Sands

Apr 26, 2018

Whispering Sands
2018 95 min 1 vues
An old woman is sitting with motionless and two eyes closed. Suddenly, a visitor shows up in the courtyard of the house while she is looking at the sunlight through a window. The turtle and a door open onto her memories and it makes her think of a memory about a rosary. The images of an unforgettable past remain in her mind with longing about her missing son.
Drama
Whispering Sands
1

Whispering Sands

Apr 26, 2018

Whispering Sands
2018 95 min 1 vues
An old woman is sitting with motionless and two eyes closed. Suddenly, a visitor shows up in the courtyard of the house while she is looking at the sunlight through a window. The turtle and a door open onto her memories and it makes her think of a memory about a rosary. The images of an unforgettable past remain in her mind with longing about her missing son.
Drama