Where Life Holds
Où vivre insiste
Aude Fourel
2026
France, Algeria, Germany
65’
Between 1977 and 1982, Monica Maurer made films in cooperation with the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Cahide Ozel was an exiled member of the resistance, forced to leave Turkish Kurdistan. They are bound together by images—the ones that Cahide misses and the ones that Monica patiently restores. Two women from different backgrounds and generations, who share a belief in one people, and in the political construction of the present, and a quest for a safe place to build a fragile memory, uncertainly resisting oblivion.