The town of Sarcelles (northern suburbs of Paris) is the European capital of a little-known community: The Assyrian-Chaldeans. Today, nearly 12,000 of these Eastern Christians live in the region.
The first to arrive in France, in the early 1970s, came mainly from the region of Tur Abdin, in the south-east of Turkey. They were second-class citizens, fleeing the civil war between the Kurds and the Turks. Today, they welcome their co-religionists refugees from Iraq and Syria.
Chaldeans of Sarcelles, the story of a community dives into the daily life of these families who had to flee the land of their ancestors and made France their new homeland. A film about exile, memory and integration, irrigated by the beauty of the Aramaic language.
Direction: Anne-Charlotte Rouxel-Oldrà
Production: O2B Films for KTO TV & Public Sénat