AMERICA STREET

Idrissou Mora Kpaï
The film delicately unfolds the sad picture of the city of Charleston through the bitter memories, broken dreams and dull anger of Joe Watson, a neighbourhood grocer. His shop becomes, through his testimony and that of his customers, a recording chamber for the memory of a black community filled with anger against institutions (police, schools, real estate) plagued by segregationism and racial hatred. This is where the death of Walter Scott, killed by a police officer, was captured on video and gave an impulsion to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Tahar Chikhaoui (Extract from the catalog of the Pays d’Apt African Film Festival)