Un Après-midi à Larache

In Larache, a harbor town in northern Morocco, Halloubi looks for the grave of the French writer Jean Genet. Various narratives take shape during his quest. Initially he keeps a compact camera running in his pocket as he muses about the meaning of digital images in relation to reality. If every reproduction is an interpretation, what is reality? As he looks out across the sea that so many want to cross, Halloubi speaks about the perspective of the outsider.

At Genet's grave those thoughts come together in a story about the course of this radical writer's life and his position as an outsider. Un Après-midi à Larache is therefore a film that, with its many levels of meaning, shows how reality cannot be captured in a single image.