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2021-06-01T16:00:00Z - 2021-06-01T18:30:00Z

Cité Internationale des Arts, Rue de l'Hôtel de ville, Paris, France

Cité internationale des arts 18 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris In partnership with Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir Discussion with Nicole Fernández Ferrer, director of Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir ▶︎▶︎ GENET PARLE D’ANGELA DAVIS by Carole Roussopoulos France - 1970 - 7 min - Documentary On October 16, 1970, at the Hotel Cecil in Paris, Carole and Paul Roussopoulos filmed Jean Genet's statement recorded after the announcement of the arrest of Angela Davis, activist of the Black Panther Party and teacher of philosophy in the United States. ▶︎▶︎ L’ENTERREMENT DE MAHMOUD AL HAMCHARI by Carole Roussopoulos France - 1973 - 13 min - Documentary Following the assassination of Mahmoud al Hamchari by the Mossad, the PLO’s first representative in Paris, the Palestinian community, along with its scarce political backers in France, gathered in a cemetery on the outskirts of Paris to pay homage to him. ▶︎▶︎ MUNICH by Carole Roussopoulos & Paul Roussopoulos France - 1972 - 12 min - Documentary In September 1972, a Palestinian commando, called Black September, takes hostage the Israeli delegation in the Munich Olympics. This movie, who denounces the hypocrisie of the so-called olympic peace, mixes archive footage from the official television and images shot in refugee camps in Jordan in September 1971, during the repression by the King Hussein's army. Carole Roussopoulos is a Swiss-French filmmaker, born in Lausanne in1945 and deceased in 2009 in Sion. She is a feminist, video pioneer and director of more than 120 documentaries, and a figure of LGBT history in Switzerland.