My Lost Home by Kamal El Mahouti
France/Morocco
19 min | 2002
The online presentation of films from „Arab Shorts 2009” on this site ended by 31 December 2011.
On the eve of the demolition of a housing project in Saint-Denis, France, Moroccan-born filmmaker Kamal El Mahouti revisits the place where he lived from the age of six. His delicate, impressionistic document probes the graffiti-covered walls, broken windows and empty stairwells of a bleak apartment block to retrieve the memories of an immigrant family.
About the Filmmaker
Kamal El Mahouti is a Moroccan writer and director. Born in Casablanca in 1963, El Mahouti moved to France at the age of six. He studied film at the Université Paris VIII, where he completed the 16mm short Once Upon a Time, the 14th of July 1945. In 2002 he directed My Lost Home. In 2005, with the help of a CNC grant, he finished the script The Past Is Dead, and is currently finalising this feature. In April 2006, he initiated a film festival, Panorama des Cinémas du Maroc et du Maghreb, in Saint-Denis, Paris.
Kamal El Mahouti is a Moroccan writer and director. Born in Casablanca in 1963, El Mahouti moved to France at the age of six. He studied film at the Université Paris VIII, where he completed the 16mm short Once Upon a Time, the 14th of July 1945. In 2002 he directed My Lost Home. In 2005, with the help of a CNC grant, he finished the script The Past Is Dead, and is currently finalising this feature. In April 2006, he initiated a film festival, Panorama des Cinémas du Maroc et du Maghreb, in Saint-Denis, Paris.
