Franssou Prenant

About the Conquest (2022)

A famous docking : Algiers, the White City, in a radiant light. The picture darkens with a voice-over reading of the text of the surrender of the Dey of Algiers in 1830. "About the Conquest" confronts us with a page of the French national novel that was to ...

Bienvenue à Madagascar (2017)

Through my window-camera, during urban adventures, views of Algiers, where, as a child, after Algerian Independence, I learned about liberty, and which some decades later after immigrating against my will and deliberately becoming an exile, I chose as my c ...

I Am Too Sexy for My Body, for My Bo-ody (2012)

"In the summer of 1969, the first and memorable Panafrican Festival of Algiers (Panaf of its small name) had brought together, assembled from all over Africa, musicians, dancers and theater groups, messenger artists from "brother countries", movements from ...

Le Jeu de l'oie du Professeur Poilibus (2007)

René Schérer, who calls himself Professor Hairibus, is a philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Paris 8, and author of many works. His philosophy is not couched in an esoteric language, it can be practised by children, women, blacks, farmer ...

Reviens et prends-moi (2005)

Between Paris and Syria, the Orient remains an ordinary place filled with literature, myth, and the pulse of love. A love film without lovers, based on a poem by Constantin Cavafy. ...

Sous le ciel lumineux de son pays natal (2001)

It happens in, under, through the holes of Beirut, its floating gaps, along gullies from drilled pipes, in the dust of what is left of it, remained, because it is of the past this Beirut we see, of the recent past, filmed in 1995, before the city center co ...

Paris, My Little Body Is Very Tired of This Big World (2000)

Lunettes and Myope: two ways of resisting the world. Identical and opposites, face to face or, more often, back to back, in a small room in a timeless space. Twins and adversaries, these two girls make one: Lunettes uses her glasses to help her understand ...

Ipoustéguy, l'âge de la décision (2000)

Calle San Luis Potosi (1990)

L'escale de Guinée (1987)

I spent six months in Guinea - Conakry - between February and July 1986; shooting alone in Super8, I filmed elements of people's lives and fragments of my own. ...

Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa (1985)

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her. ...

Habibi (1983)

A young gay man falls head over heels in love with an Algerian labourer he meets in transvestite bar where he is a regular. ...

Half a Life (1982)

Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both before and after the disturbances. He was imprisoned for a short while in 1973. Disillusioned after the failu ...

Histoire d’amour : Colombe et Avedis (1981)

Histoire d’une sculpture (1980)

Paradis Perdu (1975)

Young trans women turn the streets of Paris into their cabaret. Their dreams are quickly caught up by reality. ...

Paris, My Little Body Is Very Tired of This Big World (2000)

Lunettes and Myope: two ways of resisting the world. Identical and opposites, face to face or, more often, back to back, in a small room in a timeless space. Twins and adversaries, these two girls make one: Lunettes uses her glasses to help her understand ...

A Letter to L... (1994)

She was 18. They were in love and lived together for ten years. 20 years later, he receives a letter from her. L is very ill. ...

Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa (1985)

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her. ...

Albertine ou Les Souvenirs parfumés de Marie-Rose (1972)

France, 1972. Albertine, a teenager in rebellion against school, the rancid family and religion, asserts her rights to a sexuality without obstacles. Wiith her friends, and the right to the abortion for the minor ones. With her friends, she campaigns for t ...