La terre de Gevar

Vendredi 9 juin 2023, 20h30, Cinéma Public
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La terre de Gevar | أرض جيفار | Documentaire, 78’, 2020 | réal. Qutaiba Barhamji | France, Qatar  
Version originale arabe, sous-titres français

Récemment installé avec sa compagne et son fils dans la banlieue de Reims, Gevar, arrivé de Syrie, a décidé d’investir dans la location d’une petite parcelle de terre pour y entretenir un potager. Pendant quatre saisons, Gevar apprend à cultiver cette nouvelle terre qui ne se laisse pas faire…

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Né dans la banlieue de Damas, Qutaiba Barhamji passe son enfance entre la Syrie et la Russie où il fait des études de médecine. En 2005, il s’installe à Paris et étudie le cinéma à l’ESEC. Il réalise en 2016 le court-métrage Wardé, coproduit et diffusé sur Arte. En parallèle, il travaille comme monteur pour une trentaine de films, documentaires et fictions, parmi lesquels Still Recording de Saeed Al Batal et Ghiath Ayoub, Poisonous Roses de Fawzi Saleh et L’Homme qui penche de Olivier Dury et Marie-Violaine Brincard. Son premier long métrage documentaire en tant que réalisateur, Gevar’s Land, a participé à plus de 20 festivals, dont Cinéma du Réel, Doclisboa, Jihlava et IDFA 2020.

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Friday, June 9th, 2023, 8:30pm, Cinéma Public

Gevar’s Land | Documentary, 78’, 2020 | dir. Qutaiba Barhamji | France, Qatar  
In Arabic with French subtitles

Gevar comes from Syria and has recently started living in a suburb of Reims in France with his girlfriend and young son. He has decided to rent a plot at a community garden to grow his own vegetables. Over four seasons, he discovers what an effort it takes for him and his seedlings to put down roots in a new place. The intimacy of the setting for this story—the family home and the allotment garden—makes all the more tangible the melancholy felt by Gevar, his family, and their Syrian friends. The film reveals a family doing its utmost to start a new life, leave their old life behind, and deal with all the challenges that come along with these changes. 

Born in the Damas suburbs, director, producer and editor Qutaiba Barhamji spent his childhood between Syria and Russia, where he studied medicine. In 2005, he settled in Paris and studied film at ESEC. In 2016, he made the short Wardé, coproduced and broadcast by Arte. In parallel, he has worked as an editor on some thirty documentary and fiction films, including Still Recording by Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub, Fawzi Saleh’s Poisonous Roses and L’Homme qui penche by Olivier Dury and Marie-Violaine Brincard. His first feature length documentary film as a director, Gevar’s Land participated in more than 20 festivals including Cinéma du Réel, Doclisboa, Jihlava, IDFA 2020.