Iméra’s Mediterranean research programme is organising a public screening of Cléo Cohen’s first feature-length documentary, Que Dieu te protège, on Thursday, June 5th, 2025 at 5pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion in the presence of the director.
The screening is free, but registration is required.
Screening of the Que Dieu te protège documentary
Thursday, June 5th from 5 to 7:30 pm in the conference room of the Maison des Astronomes of Iméra (2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille)
The film
I wonder if I have to choose between being French, Jewish or Arab. I visit each of my four grandparents, Jews of Algerian and Tunisian origin who went into exile in France in the 1960s, to question with them the meaning of these apparently contradictory allegiances that they bequeathed to me. Unfortunately, my turmoil is not very communicative.
Year: 2021
Length : 79 minutes
Languages: French, Arabic.
The director: Cléo Cohen
Cléo Cohen was born in 1993. She studied French literature at the École Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm and at the Sorbonne, before joining the Lussas documentary school, where she made her first short documentary, Avant le départ, which was selected for several festivals in France and abroad. In 2021, she wrote two radio documentary series, Dans le jus d’Orange (season 1), and Une saison en campagne dans le jus d’Orange (season 2) for the programme l’Expérience, (France Culture).
Her first feature film, Que Dieu te protège, produced by Petit à Petit Production, was selected for numerous festivals in France and abroad, and won awards at DOK Leipzig (Interreligious Prize) and the MIZNA Arab Film Festival (Audience Prize). It was broadcast in July 2022 (Tënk/France 3). She is the author of a documentary series for La Série Documentaire (France Culture) entitled Juive-arabe: comment je me suis réconciliée.
Source: Notice biographique de film-documentaire.fr
Coming to Iméra
- Pedestrian access: come through the gate of the 2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille.
- PRM access: come through the gate of the Allée Jean-Louis Pons, 13004 Marseille.
