OBSCURE NIGHT - "AIN'T I A CHILD ?"

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a feature documentary by  Sylvain George, 2025, 164', black-white / colour
 

After having walked the streets of the Spanish enclave in Morocco of Mellila, Malik, Mehdi, Hassan..., now beating the cobblestones of the city of Paris, discovering its lights and its chimeras, its joys and it's violence...

The film also shows the fault lines in French society, and how “childhood” and a certain idea of youth can be the first to be affected...

This film is the continuation of the two previous parts, "Obscure Night - Wild Leaves" and "Obscure night - Goodbye here, anywhere". It closes the trilogy, the work on European policies about migration and the question of the street's children from Morocco, wishing to join the coast of Europe.
 

AWARDS

 

VISIONS DU REEL - International Competition INTERRELIGIOUS PRIZE

FESTIVALS

ACID CANNES 2025, Festival de Cannes

Jeonju International Film Festival (Korea)

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DIRECTOR

Sylvain George is a French filmmaker, born in 1968 in Lyon.

After studying philosophy, he directed poetic, political, and experimental film-essays, focusing in particular on the theme of immigration.
 

His films L’impossible (2009), Qu’ils reposent en révolte (2010), Les Éclats (2011), Vers Madrid (2013), and Paris est une fête (2017) have been shown within activist networks as well as at international festivals such as Cinéma du Réel, Milan, CPH:DOX, Torino Film Festival, BAFICI, DocLisboa, Valdivia, the Copenhagen Cinematheque, the Viennale, Centre Pompidou, Forum des Images, Festival de Lussas, FID Marseille, among others. They have also been the subject of several retrospectives (Cinémathèque Française 2008, Filmmaker Film Festival 2008, Festival des Cinémas Différents 2008, Périphérie/Jacques Rancière 2009, Doc’s Kingdom 2009, Subversive Film Festival 2010, etc.).

PRODUCTION

 

Production: Noir Productions (France)In coproduction with Alina film (Switzerland), Kintop (Portugal) and Radio Télévision Suisse RTS.

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Avec le soutien d'Eurimage, des Cinémas du Monde, des aides à l'écriture et au développement du CNC, de l'Office Fédéral de la Culture et de Cinéforom, de la Loterie Romande et de la Fondation Abbé-Pierre.