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Alimentation Générale

63% | May 18, 2005
Documentary

In Epinay-sur-Seine, in the neighborhood called « la Source », Ali’s grocery store is the only shop still in business of the decayed shopping center. It’s also the only place left for the forsaken inhabitants of the surrounding tower blocks to meet, a shelter where they can get together and exchange. This documentary film takes us into the everyday life of a small grocery store. As customers pass by, Ali, the charismatic shopkeeper, also part-time singer, is benevolently welcoming them. This moving and often amusing chronicle shows the importance of such a place, a small shop “around the corner”, in the middle of the Projects, where in spite of difficulties and poverty, people still share user-friendliness, laughter, human warmth.

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Chantal Briet
Director
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Martin Wheeler
Original Music Composer
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Pascale Chavance
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Sophie Bachelier
Director of Photography
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Ludovic Arnal
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Benoît Alavoine
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Nathalie Charles
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Chantal Briet
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Dominique Renauld
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Diane Baratier
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Chantal Briet
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Sylvia Calle
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