“The Lost Horizon is an invitation to an underwater journey, it is a cine-tourism between the cine-exploration and the cine-dream, since we follow a diver inside a staging of the abysses, in these underwater depths, which can only have been “ordered” for this journey, the marvelous news coming from the fact that we are not used to seeing this space become the natural space of a film. The Lost Horizon works like a ballet or a music – not depriving itself of using our classical musicians -, introduced and closed by the gag of a magic bathtub, using this freedom inherent to the arts of dance, when they only care about peace and harmony. This cinema voyage is therefore first of all a cinema repository or cinema eternity for which human affairs – pottery, sunken wrecks, secular anchors – are only objects of curiosity.” (Source: Pierre HAFFNER for Peuples Noirs Peuples Africains)
“When I shot my first short film, I didn’t even know what a splice was. I had certainly done some training in France to learn the basics of the business.” (Source: Femmes de Tunisie)
Champions is a film out of the archive. Old black and white pictures were edited from the 35mm National Archives, presenting 50 years of Tunisian sports among which are boxing, judo, football, cycling…
Adventure under the sea takes us to the origins of diving up to the present day (from the 15th century with the first Turkish military divers to the invention of the Cousteau-Gagnan diving suit in 1948)
A couple of tourists discover a secret passage in the amphitheater of El Djem. It is a door of time which projects them in the East of the 1001 nights. They are chased by a giant with a wooden leg, guardian of time, as they enter a mysterious library that houses all the knowledge of the wise Arabs of the Golden Age of Islamic sciences.
