Archive: Year 2023

INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOX

Pacific Club

Director

Valentin Noujaïm

Producer

Manon Messiant

Cinematographer

Pauline Domejean

Editor

Dinah Ekchajzer

Sound

Lucas Domejean

Website

Contact

Oyster Films
Christina Demetriou
[email protected]

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2023

France, Qatar

16 min

Color

In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense - the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of integrating into France but who soon came face to face with racism, the AIDS epidemic, and heroin.

Director

Born in France to Lebanese and Egyptian parents, Valentin Noujaïm is a graduate in political science of the Institut d’études politiques, Lille, FR (2015) and in screenwriting of La Fémis, Paris, FR (2020). Noujaïm’s work focuses on three axes: anti-racist movements, spatial utopias, and the disappearance of communities and individuals.

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