Alimentation Générale

In Epinay-sur-Seine, in the neighborhood called « la Source », Ali’s grocery store is the only shop still in business of the decayed shopping center. It’s also the only place left for the forsaken inhabitants of the surrounding tower blocks to meet, a shelter where they can get together and exchange. This documentary film takes us into the everyday life of a small grocery store. As customers pass by, Ali, the charismatic shopkeeper, also part-time singer, is benevolently welcoming them. This moving and often amusing chronicle shows the importance of such a place, a small shop “around the corner”, in the middle of the Projects, where in spite of difficulties and poverty, people still share user-friendliness, laughter, human warmth.

Cast

Ali Zebboudj Himself

Jeanine Anne Herself

Anne-Marie Pigeard Herself

Jamaa Hemmou Himself

Cyprien Gian Himself

Roberto Melias Himself

Akram Azzouz Himself

Rabbah Seridj Himself

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