“Electro Chaabi”
Screening organised by the CMCA
in partnership with the Département Société de la Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar
and the Centre Régional d’Information Jeunesse de Marseille
On Tuesday June 16th at 5:30 pm there will be a screening of Hind Meddeb’s documentary “Electro Chaabi”, winner of the Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures Award and the 2M Broadcasting Award (Morocco) at PriMed 2014. The screening will take place in the conference room of the BMVR of Alcazar, and is part of “Mediterranean Documentary: carte blanche CMCA”, a programme organized in partnership with the Département Société de la Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar.
In the slums of Cairo, young people dance to Electro Chaabi, a new music mixing popular song, electro beats and freestyles chanted in the style of rap. The idea is to merge sounds and styles at random. Victims of corruption and social segregation, young people in working-class districts work out their anger by partying. More than just a musical phenomenon, Electro Chaabi is an outlet for youth bullied by the prohibitions imposed by society.
Click on the image for view an extract of the film.
Hind MEDDEB, documentary director, journalist and reporter, is continually on the move between France, North Africa and the Middle East. She made “De Casa au paradis” about the May 2003 suicide bombers in Casablanca, as well as several current affairs films for Arte in Tunisia, Egypt and the Lebanon.
