1995 France confronts its own shadow—before the world was ready to watch.
From the “integration model” to the “Islamist fanatic”, France fantasizes about these children of immigrants who grew up with it. Like every month “What I’m Meddling With!” presents portraits, the result of an in-depth investigation, to give a face to today's questions. The program, broadcast in the thematic evening of the Franco-German channel Arte, is made up of 2 ambivalent documentaries: "Les Lumières De La Zone" and "Les Soldats De Dieu" followed by debates.
Direction
Triple-director tension creates dialectic, not consensus.
Writing
Investigative rigor that feels extinct in modern docs.
Director
Tewfik Farès
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired months before the 1995 Paris Métro bombings by the Armed Islamic Group, making its 'Soldiers of God' segment prophetically—and tragically—misread in real-time.
Arte's Franco-German mandate meant this reached German audiences who saw French suburban crisis as cautionary tale, while French viewers treated it as distant sociology—two receptions, one broadcast.
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