Youssef Daoudi

While the Norwegian jazz scene has been pursuing its own course for decades, the period of 1996-1997 represented a significant watershed, a milestone where an entirely new kind of music emerged, linked to jazz but distanced considerably—some might say completely, but they'd be mistaken—from its roots in the American tradition. Three seminal and groundbreaking albums were released within a year of each other: trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's Khmer (ECM, 1997); noise improv group Supersilent's 1- 3 (Rune Grammofon, 1997); and, beating the others by a year, keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft's aptly titled New Conception of Jazz (Jazzland, 1996). All three explored the integration of electronics, disparate cultural references, programming, turntables and—especially in the case of Supersilent, the most avant-garde of the three— noise, to create aural landscapes that were innovative, otherworldly and refreshingly new.

Le Cerf-volant / The Kite - Randa Chahal Sabag (2003)

A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, as brutal as our countries and the events that are to follow.

A la demande de ses soeurs, Youssef, écrivain exilé en France, est de retour à Salé, au Maroc, pour s'occuper de l'héritage familial à la suite de la mort de leur mère. Dans sa ville natale, son passé resurgit. Il se remémore avec tendresse les moments avec Nadjib, son ami et amant de jeunesse. D'autres souvenirs, plus douloureux, se réveillent aussi. …