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Also Known as Jihadi

1 h 41 minutes, 2017
︎︎︎ PRESS KIT • TEASER • DVD

The possible story of a man, Aziz, told through the landscapes he traversed: the clinic where he was born in the Parisian suburb of Vitry, the neighbourhoods he grew up in, his schools, university and workplaces. Then, his departure to Egypt, Turkey and the road to Aleppo where he joined the ranks of the al-Nusra Front in 2012. A journey tracked by a second storyline, made of extracts from judicial records: police interrogations, wiretaps, surveillance reports... Documents, like pages from a script, intertwined with images and sounds to compose a film that pertains less to a singular character, Aziz, than to the architectural, political, social and judicial landscapes in which his story unfolds.
A film by
Éric Baudelaire
Inspired by the film
A.K.A.Serial Killer
by Masao Adachi (1969)
Image
Claire Mathon
Alan Guichaoua
Sound
Nicolas Becker
Auguz Kaynak
Maxence Dussere
Phillipe Welsh
Editing
Claire Atherton
Graphic Design
Jean-Marie Courant
Reasearch
Zyneb Dryef
Alexandra Delage
Production Managers
Çiğdem Mater
Izlem Oktay
Benjamin Lanlard
Ronan Leroy
Production
Poulet-Malassis Films・Éric Baudelaire
With support from
CNC・Fonds d’Aide à l’Innovation Audiovisuelle Documentaire
Tabakalera
La Biennale de Montréal 2016
Contour Biennale 8
Witte de With [formerly known as]
Centre Pompidou
Cnap・Image/Mouvement
DCP
1:2.35
5.1 sound
French with English subtitles
DISTRIBUTION
LUX (UK)
Cinema Guild (USA)
FESTIVALS

FIDMarseille 
Festival dei Popoli, Best Feature Award
DocLisboa
Ji.hlava
Festival Filmer à tout prix
RIDM
Mar del Plata
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival
UNDOX
Transmediale Berlin
Istanbul Independent Film Festival
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg
FICUNAM
Festival Internacional de Cine de Murcia
JEONJU International Film Festival
Taiwan International Documentary Film
FilMadrid
REVIEW
The Reality-Based Community, Erika Balsom, e-flux Journal, June 2017
Surveying Landscapes for Clues to Political Violence, Mengna Da, Hyperallergic, April 2017
The Banality of Conversion, James Scarborough, Huffington Post, June 2017
MORE RESOURCES
Après, Centre Pompidou, 2017
After the Fact, Negar Azimi, Frieze Magazine, October 2018





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