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Kenyan artist, Maggie Otieno, presents a body of work that speaks of stories from the earth. Using old, discarded, and distressed materials, with the primary material being 200 years old railway sleepers sourced from India and Kenya, Maggie’s sculptures carry the burden of untold tales demanding to be understood.
In the Gardens of Carthage, a district of Tunis initiated by the former Regime which construction stopped at the beginning of the Revolution, two cops, Fatma and Batal, find a burnt body in one of the lots. As construction slowly resumes, they start looking into this mysterious case. When the event repeats itself, the investigation takes a puzzling turn.
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from Africa to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons. Spanning 30 years from their arrival in France to the present day, Léonor Serraille’s follow-up to her Caméra d’Or-winner Jeune Femme (Cannes 2017) is a moving chronicle about the construction and deconstruction of an ordinary family.