French director Mehdi Fikri spent a decade working as a reporter covering social conflict and the issues of police violence and justice in France’s notoriously deprived out-of-town suburbs. What he learned and saw during this time now feeds into his work as a filmmaker. First feature After The Fire, which debuts in Toronto’s Discovery line-up, …
When writer Kaoutar Harchi was a little girl growing up in Strasbourg two decades ago, her teacher gave her a book with the inscription, “To my little Arab”. “It profoundly shocked me and I’ve never forgotten it,” said Harchi, now 34 and a successful novelist and sociologist in Paris. “It was a way of assigning me to my origins, to say that I was not French.”
PARIS, Oct 24 When writer Kaoutar Harchi was a little girl growing up in Strasbourg two decades ago, her teacher gave her a book with the inscription, “To my little Arab”. “It profoundly shocked me and I’ve never forgotten it,” said Harchi, now 34 and a successful novelist and.