Fatiha, Malika, Anissa and Sarah don’t seem to have much in common except for their specific relation to a shrill, loud cry, ‘the youyou’. But their stories about desire, migration, revolt and be/longing resonate all the more with mutual feelings as the film unfolds towards a collective and poetic statement about female solidarity. The youyou is the French colonial name for the high pitched trill that women in Northern Africa and the Middle Eeast launch as an expression of joy or other intense emotions.

One day I read the story of an aboriginal legend according to which, each ancestor leaves behind him a sinuous path full of songs and spirit-children. When a person walks along the trail of his ancestor, it brings back the songs and stories of the earth. And if a child is born from the journey, he becomes the child of these songs. I went to Tunisia and Algeria to collect songs and popular stories of the Revolution of Independence, on the trail of a family memory and the vinyl record of the Italian anarchist group Cantacronache “Canti della Rivoluzione algerina” (“Songs of the Algerian Revolution”).

With Marie Rivière (Il raggio verde, Racconto d’autunno di Éric Rohmer). Eva is a 39-year-old, single and free woman. A gynaecologist has just told her she has very few eggs left. Eva would like to have a child but doesn’t really know how to go about it. She sets off on a singular journey.

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, two lovers who are expecting a baby search for a rescue helicopter which is only known as a myth.

The On the Road Film Festival 8. Adriano Lanzi, Roman guitarist, composer, improvisor, and performer of electronic music, will play live the sound track of The Man with the cine camera, by Dziga Vertov, filmed from dawn to dusk, mainly in the Ukrainian (then in the USSR) city of Odessa.