International Encounters
Friche La Belle de Mai

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2 pm Eco-logic (42’)

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3:15 pm Our Videopoetic Friendships
Carte Blanche at Saigon Experimental Film Festival (Vietnam)
Human-made. Tech-tales (41′)

Saigon Experimental (SEFF) is an annual experimental film event that happens primarily in Saigon, Vietnam. Founded in 2019, our goal is to generate interest in experimental cinema and spotlight exciting approaches to moving images.

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4:30 pm It burns (47’)

* Content Warning: Animal Cruelty, Gunfire, Mention of War, Explicit Murder Theme

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6 pm An encounter of a different kind
with two independent magazines born in 2025 in Marseille

Comme nous brûlons fondée by Sihem Benmina in 2024 is a space for exchange, experimentation, and breathing space reserved for diasporic authors. This magazine, which operates without white people, aims to promote dissident imaginations by giving them a place to proliferate. The first issue, published in June 2025, is dedicated to departure: you will read stories about immigration, exile, solitude, and loss, but also about hours spent in cars or planes, summer returns, memories of places and people who shape our identities.

With texts by:
Kaoutar Harchi – Fatima Daas – Lallah- Camille Chems Bakkali – Fabienne Guilbert Burgoa – Meryam Benbachir – Alexandre Takuya Kato – Nelly Slim – Fatou S. – Leï Gardef-François Fournet – Sihem Benmina – Kmar Douagi – Timour Sanli – Sarra Ryma – Elias Bé – Bao -Fadoua Tara – Samo-Kübra Jantekey – Alice M. – Irma – Sarah M. – Cindy Morilla

République indépendante des immigré.e.s de Marseille by uncivilized collective : “One day, I walked into a bookstore and bought “Writing Marseille,” published by Folio. Fifteen authors, big names. On the cover: “the Phocaean city.” Inside: emptiness. Bland texts, as if Marseille had no sweat, no anger, no accent, no mixture. I closed the book with a bitter taste: where are our people? Where are those who live in Marseille, who inhabit it from the margins, who speak it with their intertwined languages? This book was born from that frustration. A response, a literary insurrection. Twenty-five immigrant, non-white authors write their Marseille—plural, feverish, untamed. Here, we write as foreigners. We write as heirs of exile, of concrete, of the sea, and of neighborhoods. We reinvent the city, at the height of bodies, of love, of rage, and of dignity. Independent Republic of Immigrants of Marseille: a literature of interstices, an affective and political map of the city, a living archive of those we always forget to invite to write History. »

With texts by:
Nelly Slim – Sophia Demaegdt – Inès Hosni – Thies Selma – Aïmen Laïhem – Mohamed Nour Bangoura – Adel Mohamedi – Hamza Boussedra – Cindy Curius dite “La Sorcière En Airmax” -Oumaima Isis Dermoumi – Aïcha Chikh – Lucia Ferré – Brahimi Atlal – Farah Djabi – Léa Malvina Noygues – Sami dit “Lasseu” – Emma Atlani – Flor de Julio – Camille Soualem – Abrous Yasmine – Nadia Khallouki – Aklla Sumaq – Ines Tobji Hader – Kmar Douagi – Juliana Mejia – Taous Dahmani.


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Seita Theater📍

8:30 pm Are you weightless? (42’)

* Content Warning: Explicit, non-sexualized nudity

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9:45 pm Performance “Améthysta” ……ANNULÉ……
by Geneviève Favre Petroff (30′ – Switzerland)

“Améthysta questions technology and how it can enhance us, support us, and develop us as humans or everyday heroes. In this performance, I hybridize Greek mythology as much as Japanese popular culture, referencing Artemis the teenage warrior and teacher, Nike the winged victory, anime, and video games.”

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2 pm – 11 pm Video installation in loop