Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.

Manifesta 15 Barcelona took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.

Philippe Pujol, FR

His second film, La fille qui ne voulait pas sortir, evolves as a reference to a classical musical romantic comedy that carries a tragedy in the core of its plot and disguise the social conditions with dance and music. The film discloses fictions and realities of inhabitants’ daily lives in Saint-Mauront district, considered to be one of the poorest neighbourhood of France. The fictional and real persona unveiled here is Célia, a young girl from the neighborhood with a tragic family story linked with murders. Her hopes and fears for a future life, her desires, her musical presence, those are a joyful and harsh immersion in a piece of France, a threatened laboratory of the living together.