Synopsis
Confined in a small room on the eighth floor of a half-abandoned building, Jamal searches for the words that would solve the labyrinth of life and existence.
The voices of his North African friends, imprisoned in detention centres, come from the mountains around the metropolis of Athens.
Director's Biography
Nina ALEXANDRAKI: Born in Athens, Nina studied Philosophy and then Cinema at INSAS in Brussels.
In constant dialogue with literature that she also practices, Nina try, through her films, to compose mental spaces, to grasp experience in its intimacy.
Eleftherios PANAGIOTOU: Born in 1988,Eleftherios lives and work between Athens and Brussels. After his studies in physics and astrophysics, he completed his training in filmmaking in Greece in the laboratory "Paysages Intérieurs". Since 2018, Eleftherios's work has focused on documentary filmmaking.
As in the film "Je suis dehors" but also in the feature film "Asphaltos" (in co-production with France and Greece) that he his currently making, he desires to open up an interior space, like an infinite land where we can walk against the tide of dominant one-way narratives.
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