83882
83882

Alimentation Générale

2005-05-18
6.3
fr 84m
Documentary
In Epinay-sur-Seine, in the neighborhood called « la Source », Ali’s grocery store is the only shop still in business of the decayed shopping center. It’s also the only place left for the forsaken inhabitants of the surrounding tower blocks to meet, a shelter where they can get together and exchange. This documentary film takes us into the everyday life of a small grocery store. As customers pass by, Ali, the charismatic shopkeeper, also part-time singer, is benevolently welcoming them. This moving and often amusing chronicle shows the importance of such a place, a small shop “around the corner”, in the middle of the Projects, where in spite of difficulties and poverty, people still share user-friendliness, laughter, human warmth.

Director

Chantal Briet

Writer

Chantal Briet

Director of Photography

Sophie Bachelier

Original Music Composer

Martin Wheeler

Editor

Benoît Alavoine

Director of Photography

Chantal Briet

Status

Released

Countries

  • France

Companies

  • Images Plus
  • Yenta Production