Julien Gaertner

Julien Gaertner

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Julien Gaertner is a historian, documentary filmmaker, and researcher. After teaching at the University of Montreal, he lectured at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris on the Méditerranée campus. In 2010, he defended a thesis on "The Image of the "Arab" in French Cinema from 1970 to the Present Day." His research interests include the history of immigration, the history of representations, and the history of cinema. He directed "Déséquilibre" in 2013, a documentary about a family of acrobats in Tangier. He then collaborated with Karim Dridi on the documentary "Quatuor Galilée" (2014), then on the writing of his fiction "Chouf," released in theaters in 2016. They co-directed "Hakawati, les derniers conteurs" (2019).

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Hakawati, the Last storytellers 2019

Despite their children's reluctance, Radi and Mounira, a 65-year-old puppeteer couple, set off on tour between Israel and Palestine in their outdated van. They are exhausted from having to set up and take down the stage, from performing three shows in a row in front of hundreds of wild children under a burning sky. Lost in Jericho, frightened by the bombs falling near Majd Al Shams, destabilized by the Bedouin children of the Negev unable to determine their own identity, they no longer know if their mission is still relevant. Safeguarding the identity of their people through their shows, but at what cost? A quest for Palestinian identity.