
Cécile Allégra
2021Les Chants de Vivant
Cécile Allégra
Composed of songs and memories, this powerful musical film traces the traumatic experience of young survivors from different parts of Africa. In the village of Conques in France, they found a therapeutic space where they learn to overcome their past and, through song, to imagine a new future.
Songs of the Living
Unspeakable Crime
Cécile Allégra
In the shadow of an anonymous rooms, somewhere in Tunis, a man - Yasine - painfully utters fragments of words. Words that speak about an ancient, shameful, overwhelming wound: a rape, committed by khadafist soldiers during the 2011 war. Through his words, and those of other men who finally dare to speak after seven years of silence, the extent of and unspeakable crime - mass male rape - gradually resurfaces.
Unspeakable Crime