Screening date:07/12/2011 -- 20h30
Blagues à part/ (No) Laughing Matter

During 4 years, Vanessa Rousselot travelled the roads of the West Bank looking for that most human of qualities, humour. Her method was simple: she asked every new person she met, "Do you know a Palestinian joke?"

Country: France
Production: Edward Gubbins & Virginie Meunier/Éo productions, Tél : +33 (0)1 4262 2757
Year: 2010
Director: Vanessa Rousselot
Editing: Nadia Ben Rachid, Juliette Haubois
Cinematography: Philippe Bellaïche
Sound: Ala Khoury
Music: Nicolas Francart
Beta –  54'


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biography

Vanessa Rousselot studied the history of the Arab world at the Sorbonne, and Arabic at INALO, the institute of oriental languages in Paris. Then she filmed interviews with Palestinians in the refugee camps of Lebanon, and trained in documentary filmmaking at Atliers Varan, where she directed Seizième Round about former vice-champion boxer, Freddy Skouma. She directed several TV reportages for WA productions.

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