Tea or Electricity

Synopsis

Tea or electricity’ tells the epic story of the implementation of electricity in a tiny isolated village enclosed in the middle of the Moroccan High Atlas. Over more than three years and season after season, the director patiently reveals the outlines of the net that will inevitably end up closing on the people of Ifri. Before our eyes is draft the image of the merciless modernity that the small village will now be connected to.

Director Biography

Born in Liege in 1969, Jerôme le Maire began studying journalism and communication at the Free University of Brussels and then started to study for a degree in film-making at the ‘Institut des Arts de Diffusion’. For six years, as he kept writing, he directed several corporate films and had a career as assistant to the director for many feature and short films of all types.