Occidental
Neïl Beloufa
In a world in crisis with blurred ideologies and unhealthy questions of identity, where things only seem to give us a choice between CCTV and the gods. At the Hotel Occidental, everyone lies. When compulsive liar Antonio wants to spends a night in the bridal suite with his so-called lover Giorgio, Diana, the hotel manager, goes on crusade to show they are going to commit a crime, calling in the police without having any proof of their guilt. All the characters will try to turn the plot to their own personal interests, making a hidden love story into judging people by appearances, or homophobia, or even a threat of terrorism.
With : Idir Chender, Louise Orry Diquero, Anna Ivacheff, Hamza Meziani, Paul Hamy, Brahim Tekfa
Screenplay : Neïl Beloufa
Image : Guillaume Le Grontec
Sound : Arno Ledoux, François Bailly
Editing : Ermanno Corrado
Music : Grégoire Bourdeil, Alexandre Geindre
Screenplay : Neïl Beloufa
Image : Guillaume Le Grontec
Sound : Arno Ledoux, François Bailly
Editing : Ermanno Corrado
Music : Grégoire Bourdeil, Alexandre Geindre
Production : BAD MANNER'S, Atelier Neïl Beloufa
Born in Paris in 1985, Neïl Beloufa is a Franco-Algerian artist who lives and works in Paris. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (USA), in Cooper Union à New York and at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporain, in Tourcoing. He has been nominated for a number of awards, and his work has had exhibitions in France and abroad. Neïl Beloufa has also been to the Shanghai Biennale for Contemporary Art, the 55th International Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and the Contemporary Art Biennale in Lyon in 2013.
“Occidental is NeIl Beloufa's first fiction film. Although he is an internationally recognised artist, he wanted to experience a certain danger by going outside the field of contemporary art. The project of this film has been in the back of his mind since he was a student. It is both ambitious (a tribute to Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar) and difficult to treat (judging by appearances), and it was only in 2015 that the conditions converged to make the film, transforming with determination and energy his artist's studio in Villejuif into a genuine film set.”
“Occidental is NeIl Beloufa's first fiction film. Although he is an internationally recognised artist, he wanted to experience a certain danger by going outside the field of contemporary art. The project of this film has been in the back of his mind since he was a student. It is both ambitious (a tribute to Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar) and difficult to treat (judging by appearances), and it was only in 2015 that the conditions converged to make the film, transforming with determination and energy his artist's studio in Villejuif into a genuine film set.”