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Valentin Noujaïm

Still: PACIFIC CLUB

Valentin Noujaïm, a Franco-Lebanese filmmaker, graduated from La Fémis and studied at the Städelschule. His work explores improvised, compressed, and extinguished lives, creating marginal characters in fantasized universes using 16mm film, archives, digital, and special effects. His films have been showcased at CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, IFFR, DocLisboa, BAFICI, DokuFest, BlackStar Film Festival, and Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. Exhibited at Triennale de Nîmes, Museo Madre, Magasins Généraux, and Saatchi Gallery, his works are in CNAP, FRAC Bretagne, and Lafayette Anticipations collections. Noujaïm will debut his first institutional solo show in 2025 and is working on his first feature.

Q: What themes or concepts drive your filmmaking, particularly in your film “Pacific Club”?
A:
I am obsessed with the concept of disappearance, as an event of fate but also as a political event. Why stories disappear, why entire groups are erased, why certain people decide to disappear. I make films to question this event, to question the things that we don’t see, that we just feel without being able to put into words or images. Pacific Club is a film to fill the silence, to tell the story of a place that no longer exists. The only trace of this place is the memory of Azedine, that must be recorded, saved, and finally given a voice, though the time of a film.

Films

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