ALLONS  ENFANTS

Feature Documentary

 

Directed by Thierry DEMAIZIÈRE and Alban TEURLAI

Written with Elsa LE PEUTREC

In coproduction with Falabracks

1982. Rap makes its appearance in France and immediately the case is heard! This music and the culture it conveys, coming from the black neighborhoods of the USA, are only a passing fad. It will disappear as quickly as it appeared.

2018. Rap culture is the culture of a large part of French youth. Rappers are at the top of the charts, taggers are exposed at the Elysée and galleries in sight. As for hip-hop dancers, especially French, they are from all the international troupes.

If rap has come out of the cultural ghetto, the same cannot be said of those who listen to it, of those who dance it. A fringe of French youth, black and North African, most often poor, continues to live apart, in suburbs where one understands less and less what young people aspire to. It is to give a chance to some of them that a unique sector has been opened in the heart of Paris. Every September, about fifty students from the Priority Education Zones meet at the Turgot high school. They have only one thing in common: their love of hip-hop dance. Exceptionally accepted to continue their schooling in Paris, they will try to obtain their baccalaureate and, at the same time, become the "best dancers in France". During their high school years, these young people, most of them underprivileged, will take advantage of the teachings of professionals - choreographers, members of the Comédie Française, artists from the National Dance Center- who will push them to give all that they are usually keep quiet.