INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOX
Pacific Club
Directors
Valentin Noujaïm
Producers
Manon Messiant
Cinematographers
Pauline Domejean
Editors
Dinah Ekchajzer
Sound
Lucas Domejean
Official Film Website
Contact
Oyster Films
Christina Demetriou
[email protected]
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2023
France, Qatar
16 min
Color
In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense - the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of integrating into France but who soon came face to face with racism, the AIDS epidemic, and heroin.
Director
Born in France to Lebanese and Egyptian parents, Valentin Noujaïm is a graduate in political science of the Institut d’études politiques, Lille, FR (2015) and in screenwriting of La Fémis, Paris, FR (2020). Noujaïm’s work focuses on three axes: anti-racist movements, spatial utopias, and the disappearance of communities and individuals.
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