{"id":813454,"date":"2026-08-14T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813454\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:40:13","slug":"giuseppe-schillacis-auber-89-acquired-by-lightdox-ahead-of-venice-prem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813454\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuseppe Schillaci\u2019s ‘Auber 89’ Acquired By Lightdox Ahead Of Venice Prem."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: International sales and distribution agency Lightdox<\/a> has acquired Giuseppe Schillaci<\/a>\u2019s documentary Auber 89<\/a> ahead of its world premiere at the Giornate degli Autori<\/a>\u2018s Notti Veneziane (Venetian Nights), a sidebar of the Venice Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe nonfiction feature examines the experience of Fatsah Bouyahmed<\/a>, a French Algerian actor who suffered memory loss after an accident. When the filmmaker discovered archival footage of Bouyahmed from his childhood and youth in the Aubervilliers social housing estate outside Paris, he invited him to view it and that triggered a process of reconnecting Bouyahmed with his past.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs Fatsah revisits the footage forty years later, memories of family, friendship, music, and daily life resurface alongside the social tensions of the time: rising racism, inequality, and exclusion,\u201d notes a synopsis. \u201cMoving between past and present, Auber 89 revisits a fleeting moment of hope before disillusionment reshaped the Parisian suburbs, while the textures of television and VHS ground the story in the sensory world of the 1980s.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Auber<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Auber 89.\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Lightdox<\/p>\n

\n\tAuber 89 premieres September 10 at Giornate degli Autori, where it will be followed by a Q&A.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAuber 89 is a rare kind of film, where one man\u2019s fractured memory becomes a way into the buried history of an entire community,\u201d said Lightdox founder Anna Berthollet. \u201cGiuseppe Schillaci takes a remarkable archival discovery and turns it into something urgent and deeply human, carried by Fatsah Bouyahmed\u2019s extraordinary journey back to himself. This is a film that gives the French suburbs their complexity back, beyond the clich\u00e9s that have long defined them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Auber<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Auber 89.\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Lightdox<\/p>\n

\n\tAuber 89 is produced by Label Vid\u00e9o (V\u00e9ronique Holley and Raffaele Ventura) in France, in co-production with Revolver (Paolo Maria Spina) in Italy, Via93 (Sylvain Poubelle and Bruno. Niepceron), and E2P (Pierre-Jean Bartheye) in France. Lightdox is handling international sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchillaci, born in Palermo, Sicily and based in Paris, is a novelist and filmmaker. His 2024 feature documentary Bosco Grande also premiered in the Giornate degli Autori in Venice and went on to win the Grand Prix at the National Competition at FIPADOC Biarritz. His additional directing credits include Tranzicion \u2013 art et pouvoir en Albanie (2017), L\u2019ombra del padrino (2016), Apolitics Now! (2013), and The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D\u2019Agata (2009), co-directed by Tommaso Lusena.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a director\u2019s statement, Schillaci recalled sharing the archival video of Bouyahmed with his protagonist.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe came to my editing studio, sat down in front of a screen, and I showed him the footage of his youth,\u201d Schillaci writes. \u201cThe screen became, in the truest sense, a machine for recovering memory: frame by frame, something reawakened within him. From that day on, this encounter between a man and the ghosts of his own youth became the film\u2019s driving force, its backbone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: International sales and distribution agency Lightdox has acquired Giuseppe Schillaci\u2019s documentary Auber 89 ahead of its world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[345062,88,345063,345064,345065,345066,206,24350],"class_list":["post-813454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-auber-89","tag-entertainment","tag-fatsah-bouyahmed","tag-giornate-degli-autori","tag-giuseppe-schillaci","tag-lightdox","tag-movies","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}