Through the Screening of "Looking for My Mother" and the Broadcast of the Engaged Clip "Mchiti w Khalitini", Enda Inter-Arabe Offers a Meeting Where the Intimate Meets the Collective
A work born from a life experience that questions abandonment, identity search, and affirms the citizen role of art as a space of resilience and social transformation.
The Press — There are works that do not arise from a simple artistic impulse, but from an intimate flaw. Works that carry within them a wound, a quest, a restrained cry.
The screening of the documentary "Looking for My Mother", followed by the broadcast of the engaged clip "Mchiti w Khalitini", falls within this rare dimension where art becomes both testimony, reparation, and civic act.
A Moment of Collective Reflection
On Friday, February 13th at 4:00 PM, at the Espace El Kahina, Enda Inter-Arabe proposes more than a screening session: a moment of collective reflection on abandonment, childhood, and the search for origins. Directed by Anis Lassoued, the documentary retraces the intimate journey of Moez Chriti, a young artist in search of his biological mother. A personal quest that goes beyond individual narrative to question social silences, stigmas, and norms surrounding abandonment.
From Suffering to Creative Force
From this journey was born "Mchiti w Khalitini" (You left and you left me), a clip carried by Moez Chriti and Haroun Hamza. Far from a simple musical project, the work imposes itself as the culmination of a path of resilience. Each note, each image carries the memory of an absence transformed into creative force. Supported by Enda Inter-Arabe, this creation testifies to the ability of art to metamorphose pain into public speech.
A Complete Reading of the Process
By showing the documentary first, then the clip as an artistic extension of this story, the event proposes a complete reading of the process: from lived experience to its aesthetic transfiguration. Art appears as a space of reconstruction, but also as a tool for social questioning.
Interactive Debate
The meeting, open to the public and particularly to journalists, producers, cultural actors, and opinion leaders, will continue with an interactive debate in the presence of Moez Chriti and filmmaker Anis Lassoued. The exchanges will focus on the weight of social norms related to abandonment, identity search, the need for recognition, but also on the civic responsibility of artistic creation. How can art break the silence? How can it transform looks and open spaces of empathy?
Culture as a Lever of Emancipation
Through this initiative, Enda Inter-Arabe reaffirms its conviction that culture is not a luxury, but a lever of emancipation. By accompanying fragile life trajectories and offering them a space of expression, the organization reminds us that commitment can take the form of a film, a song, a testimony — and that creation, when it is nourished by reality, becomes a profoundly political act in the noble sense of the term: that which connects the individual to the city.
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