The association Sentiers-Massarib was created in May 2017. It is a cultural association that aims to the construction of a public space for debate and intellectual inquiry. Sentiers-Massarib works on the dissemination of film culture, and more generally, image culture by organizing events like film screenings, film creation workshops, reading of the image and film critic workshops as part of itinerant actions mainly unfolding in certain regions of Tunisia that are rather marginalized in terms of access to art and culture.
What underlies all of Sentiers’ actions is a vision that places art and representation at the heart of the democratic and political question, not by making art the simple instrument of social and citizen engagement, but rather by considering creation as a political act in itself, where aesthetics are each time the singular expression of the common life which also is forged and built in artistic and essentially cinematographic practice, given the importance of the image and the democratization of the tools that capture it. This is why our activities are conceived essentially on a participative mode that makes the public and more precisely the young public an agent taking part in a process of understanding oneself and the world and in a process of creation.
Our objectives
To contribute to the dissemination of film culture in places where there is almost no cinemas and to exploit spaces that may be occasionally transformed during our events (or other events) into projection spaces.
To establish a link between cinema as a set of contemporary professional works and as a practice of young amateurs on the one hand, and on the other hand the transformations that our societies are undergoing. Finally, bind reflection on works and non-professional production (in this case in the context of workshops) with local creative dynamics.
To make the dissemination of film culture a matter of solidarity roaming in a territory marked by unequal chances and opportunities.
Team
Insaf Machta
president, film critic
Tahar Chikhaoui
vice president, film critic
Chaïma Chorfane
secretrary general, editor and film programmer
Sami Bargaoui
treasurer, historian and cinephile
Hajer Bouden
member since 2017, translator and cinephile
Hassen Tahri
member since 2022, software engineer and co-founder of the Oued Ellil Cine-Club
Siryne Loued
member since 2019, visual artist and young filmmaker
Leila Galaï
member since 2017, PhD in Chemistry and cinephile
Meryem Belkaïd
member since 2023, academic, film critic and author of From Outlaw to Rebel. Oppositional
documentaries in Contemporary Algeria
Lokman Soua
member since 2022, teacher and co-founder of the Oued Ellil Cine-Club
Walid Draoui
member since 2022, holds a degree in film studies and editing
Cyrine Sellami
member since 2023, production assistant and coordinator of the Sud Ecriture Workshops
Hichem Ben Boubaker
member since 2020, photographer and president of the Redeyef film club
Youssef Ben Amara
member since 2023, graduate in film studies (directing)
Youssef Chaker
member since 2023, graduate in film studies (directing)
Khadija Zamouli
member since 2023, graduate in film studies and visual artist
Maryem Jradi
membre 2024, titulaire d’une licence en études cinématographiques et monteuse