Mickey et la fin du monde

Following the death of her father, an Algerian immigrant, Hannah sees the silences begin to crack. A silence of exile, of a language left untold, of unspoken violence. Who was this man from Algeria whose story she knows nothing of?

A taciturn father, at times brutal, shaped by humiliation and the demand to keep a low profile. His fear overflows, his shame spreads, and something is passed on in spite of him. Within Hannah’s body, the violence continues to live on. In her relationships, in the way she holds herself in the world. Algeria remains there, absent yet omnipresent, like a memory she cannot access. So Hannah pauses. She looks. She tries to put it into words. Perhaps the father must be laid to rest — even before his death — so that something might stop trembling?

Text and direction by Iman Kerroua
Starring Yasmine Hadj Ali, Nathalie Dorion, Raymond Hosny, Iman Kerroua and Antoine Kobi
Set design by Iman Kerroua
Assistant directors: Ruth Olaïzola and Elisa Berr
Costumes by Siegrid Petit-Imbert
Music by Geoffrey Posada Serguier
Lighting design by Nieves Salzmann
Sound engineering by Marie Philippe