Documenting the Periphery: The Short Films of Faïza Guène

"Interstitial Spaces and Sites of Struggle": Displacement, Identity, and Belonging in Contemporary French Accented Cinema

“…published a manifesto stating: "Nous refusons de demeurer spectateurs des souffrances dont sont victimes les plus fragiles, les déclassés, les invisibles" (We refuse to remain spectators of suffering by victims who are the among the most fragile, the underclassed, the invisible). 63 Dominic Thomas writes that one of the collective's main objectives, at the time, was to call out imposed inaccurate stereotypes of the banlieues. The collective also strove to position their literary and artistic expression firmly within French space rather than on the fringes of society looking in.…”