Immigrant Memories Print
Sat 23 Feb

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Immigrant Memories / Mémoires d'immigrés

France/Algeria | 1997 | col & b&w | 102 mins (2 parts) | dir. Yamina Benguigui

Few films make such an impact on one’s understanding of what constitutes the modern immigrant experience in Europe as does Mémoires d'immigrés. Yamina Benguigui’s intensely poignant and revelatory film is structured around a series of interviews with North African immigrants with rare archive footage of French official policy to its migrant subjects.

Introduced by dir. Yamina Benguigui

Sat 23 Feb | 
4.00pm | cert. 15 | video screening | £5, conc. £4

 
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