Synopsis
This is a story of a friendship. Sobhan and Hamid. Two young Afghans. The journey from Afghanistan to Paris brought them together. It is here, around a makeshift fire lit on the edge of a canal, that they found each other. La nuit remue shows what sometimes happens after dark in the heart of our cities. A film about the night commuters in Europe, about an Afghan youth who lives in exile and who, clandestinely, writes its history. With acts, words and cell phones.
A word from Tënk
"Here, minutes are worth their weight in gold."
First join them, discreet residents of a blind night on the outskirts of an invisible and inhospitable Paris. Sobhan and Hamid, trapped between the banks of a dark river and a fantastical city, tell us about the journey they have been on since their exile from the mountains of Afghanistan.
There, near the fire, the word unties little by little; and the story, collective and intimate, can be born. Almost a mythology. Their conversation, full of worries and fears, terrified and resilient looks, is nevertheless surprisingly gentle and implicit.
From the archives of the "journey" filmed by the protagonists to the journeys transcribed in chalk on the asphalt, the filmmaker captures the incessant flux that inhabits the characters without showing or weighing them down. He suggests, distills, and transmits the silences and the unspoken words like a clear punctuation in the heart of an ample and unpromising story.
At the end of the night, this short (but great) film thus erects a precious experience of perception of otherness and frees up an authentic territory of listening on the fringe of media discourse.
Terence Chotard
Filmmaker
