Collection Pierre-Alain Meier

Producer of more than 30 feature length films for the cinema in various countries including Argentina (Memoria del Saqueo and La Dignidad de los Nadies by Fernando Solanas), Cambodia (Rice People by Rithy Panh), Senegal (Hyenas by Djibril Diop Mambéty), Burkina Faso (Yaaba by Idrissa Ouedraogo), Algeria (Bab el Oued City by Merzak Allouache), Romania (Maria by Peter Netzer), Italy (Men of the Port by Alain Tanner), Switzerland (Fire in Paradise, More than Honey and Eldorado by Markus Imhoof, Pas douce by Jeanne Waltz, Win Win by Claudio Tonetti, Thelma, Farewell to Africa, Amor Fati, by Pierre-Alain Meier), France (Bye Bye by Karim Dridi, Karnaval by Thomas Vincent, Un été brûlant by Philippe Garrel), Palestine (Salt of this Sea by Annemarie Jacir).

Hyenas (1992)
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Senegal
111′
In Colobane, people expect the return of Linguère Ramatou, a former local girl now rumored to be richer than the World Bank. But her generosity has its conditions: she offers a check of ten billion for the death of Dramaan Drameh who refused to admit that he was the father of her child 30 years ago. "Life made made me a whore, now I'm turning the world into a brothel" she tells the citizens of Colobane.
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Let's talk, Grandmother (1989)
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Senegal
34′
Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's (Burkina Faso, 1989) second feature film. A documentary full of humorous anecdotes regarding the dangers of shooting in Burkina Faso.
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Love of Fate
Pierre-Alain Meier
Switzerland
88′
1.5 million Syrians have had to flee to Lebanon. Their only hope for a lasting solution is to participate in a resettlement program. Two families are on the verge of departure for Germany. But as they take the final step, fate intervenes. One of the two families will not leave in the end. When fate strikes, there is no escape. There are cures for disease, there is none for fate.
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La danse du singe et du poisson (1994)
Pierre-Alain Meier
Cambodia
42′
The seven young Cambodian actresses who were chosen to play the main parts of The Rice People were all born during the Khmer Rouge genocide between 1975 and 1979 or under the subsequent occupation. When they are not on the set, they are all practicing the art of choreography between the walls of the former royal palace of Phnom Penh.
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Far From the Villages (2009)
Olivier Zuchuat
Chad
74′
April 2006. 13000 members of the Dajo ethnic group have taken refuge on the plain of Gouroukoun in eastern Chad. They are all survivors of the Darfur conflict. Secluded in the camp they have constructed, they create their own way of life and means of survival. The filmmaker joins the refugees in this prison without walls, capturing everyday life as it is gradually reembraced.
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Moi et mon blanc (2004)
S. Pierre Yameogo
Burkina Faso
92′
An african student in Paris needs to work by night to finance the rest of his studies. By coincidence he gets a lot of money and turns back home to Burkina Faso with his french friend - but life is not that easy anywhere. Still watching how it is to be a stranger here or there can be quite funny.
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The Dignity of the Nobodies (2005)
Fernando Solanas
Argentina
116′
This film is about the degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands.
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