Films by Matthieu Deniau

France, Germany 2022, 65 min
by Alain Gomis

December 1969, Thelonious Monk in Paris. Before his evening concert, he records a programme for French television. The rushes show a Thelonious Monk who is in the grip of the violent factory of stereotypes from which he tries to escape.The film becomes the crossing of this great artist, who would like to exist only for his music. And the portrait in hollow of a media machine as ridiculous as it is revolting.Here is the machine in action. Deconstructing these rushes as phantasms. To see the facto

Egypt, Libanon, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Qatar 2017, 83 min
by Mohamed Siam

Amal is 14 years old when she ends up on Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution, after the death of her boyfriend in the Port Said Stadium riot. During the protests, she is beaten by police and dragged across the square by her hair. This coming-of-age film follows her over the years after the revolution. As the film cuts between the unfolding current events and Amal’s rapidly changing life and appearance, we see her searching for her own identity in a country in transition. Amal is fiery a