The Crossing by Nadia Touijer
Tunisia
15 min | 2008
The online presentation of films from „Arab Shorts 2009” on this site ended by 31 December 2011.
Amin is an 8-year old who lives in a popular quarter in the heights of Tunis. He descends to the city to hand in his collection and hopes to be awarded a bicycle. Almost all alone he faces the metropolis. His journey proves to be more difficult than expected. There is something eminently modern in this initiation story: a subtle merging of documentary and fiction, a propensity to de-dramatize, an erasure of psychology and a very irregular breath which matches with the rhythm of the little child’s perambulation in the big city. Why does this boy, this foreigner to the big city, meet the glance of this tramp and not another one? The city is depicted without any disguise in its ugliness, and shot from the child’s point of view.
About the Filmmaker
Nadia Touijer was born in 1976. In 1995, she joined the FTCA. She has taken several introductory courses on photography, editing, film analysis and film writing. After a degree in natural sciences, she enrolled in the INSAS in Brussels and in 2005 graduated in film editing. She has edited many short and feature films and since 1999 has also worked as a director. She is currently working on two other short film projects, La Descente and Utopie.
Nadia Touijer was born in 1976. In 1995, she joined the FTCA. She has taken several introductory courses on photography, editing, film analysis and film writing. After a degree in natural sciences, she enrolled in the INSAS in Brussels and in 2005 graduated in film editing. She has edited many short and feature films and since 1999 has also worked as a director. She is currently working on two other short film projects, La Descente and Utopie.
