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Unspoken Tears (Trauma Through Words)

Je pleure dans ma tête (Les traumas par les mots)
Hélène Magny
2022 | 75 min
Documentary
Original French version with English subtitles

Poster


ONE AND TWO LINERS


CONTEXT WITH CURRENT EVENTS

Excerpts

Excerpt #1 - Garine Papazian-Zohrabian


Excerpt #2 - Diagnoses that label people


Excerpt #3 - Arezki and exile



Images


Alia Abed & Mandjey Kamara

Arezki Terkemani

Round table discussion - Henri-Beaulieu School

Children - Henri-Beaulieu School

Children - Henri-Beaulieu School

Garine Papazian-Zohrabian

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Abdul Aziz Kamara & Moustapha Gnessien

Mandjey Kamara & Alia Abed

Countryside - Laval

Credits

A film by 
Hélène Magny 

Produced by
Nathalie Cloutier 

Images
Arnaud Bouquet

Lebanon Images
Wissam Charaf

Editing
Michel Giroux 

Original Music
Sami Basbous 

Sound Design
Benoît Dame
Catherine Van Der Donckt
 

With the participation of
Garine Papazian-Zohrabian
Arezki Terkemani
Mandjey Kamara 

And
Alia Abed
Geneviève Cardinal
Suzanne Des Marais
Martin Després
Lauriane El Boustany
Maya El Nassrany
Djessira Kourouma
Noor Michael
 

As well as
École Henri-Beaulieu
Abdul-Aziz
Bezaleel
Djemga Keny-Dave
Lina
Lyne
Mera
Moustapha
Nada
Naia
Naji  
 
Nathanaël
Safa
Sangeeth
Yasmine
Zakaria
Zena  

École Chénier
Amer
Hiba
Ishak
Marley
Mouna
Nihal
Ouiam
Romina
Valentina
Yacine
Yalas
Yolande  

Researched, Written and Directed by 
Hélène Magny 

Producer
Nathalie Cloutier 

Editing
Michel Giroux 

Images
Arnaud Bouquet 

Location Sound
Lynne Trépanier
Dimitri Médard 

Sound Design
Benoît Dame
Catherine Van Der Donckt 

Additional Images
Elie Bachaalany
Wissam Charaf 

Additional Sound
Mélanie Gauthier
Simon Plouffe
Geneviève Thibert 

Production Manager
Geneviève Thibert 

Additional Production Manager
Evelyne de Pas 

Drone Images
Drone Box  

Technical Support – Editing 
Pierre Dupont
Marie-Josée Gourde
Patrick Trahan 

Translation
Sami Basbous
Eli Jean Tahchi 

Translation and Subtitling
difuze 

Graphic Design
Alain Ostiguy
Cynthia Ouellet 

Animated Graphics
Alain Ostiguy 

Online Editing and Colourization 
Serge Verreault 

Dialogue Editing  
Lori Paquet 

Additional Sound Editing
Jérémie Jones 

Foley
Stéphane Cadotte 

Foley Recording
Luc Léger  

Re-recording
Jean Paul Vialard 

Original Music
Sami Basbous  

Musicians
Casey Fulton – Piano
Frédérique Tanguay-Gagnon – Violin
Sadio Sissokho – Kora  

Music Recording and Mix
Geoff Mitchell
assisted by
Luc Léger 

 Additional Music 

“Adieu mon pays” 
Composed by Gaston Ghrenassia
SONY/ATV for EMI Music Publishing France
Performed by Enrico Macias 
With permission from Universal Music Canada Inc. (from the album Live 2003 à l’Olympia) 

“Le voyage”
Composed by Enrico Macias and Jean-Loup Dabadie
ÉDITORIAL AVENUE for Art Music France
SOCAN for Éditions LCL Musique 
Performed by Enrico Macias 
With permission from Universal Music Canada Inc. (from the album Live 2003 à l’Olympia) 

Negotiation of additional music
Lucie Bourgouin 

Book excerpts from
C’est quoi un réfugié? by Elise Gravel
© Text and illustrations: Elise Gravel, 2019
© 2019 la courte échelle
With permission from la courte échelle 

Thanks to
Ray Aoun
Sarah Mireille Aoun
Caroline Bastien
Agnès Batty
Geoffroy Beauchemin
Michèle Bélanger
Lilia Berkouk
Pascale Bilodeau
Muriel Bittar
Marie-Claude Boutillier
Rhizlaine Chebani
Fanny Cousineau
Erick Décarie
Sabrina Desjardins
Alain Duchesne
Mona Feghali Doumani
 
Marie-Christine Gagné
Viviane Hajjar
Valérie Lacroix
Vanessa Lemire
Colette Loumède
Anik Magny
Thomas Magny
Laurence Oliva
Jean Prudhomme
Sophie Quevillon
Martine Théberge
Asmaël Thériault
Charles-Antoine Thibeault
Constant Videlson
Huri Zohrabyan
Nare Zohrabyan
Sepuh Zohrabyan
 
Taron Zohrabyan  

Legal Advisor
Julie Patry 

Marketing Managers
Geneviève Bérard
Karine Sévigny
Nathalie Guerard 

Marketing Coordinator
Éric Bondo 

Administrator
Sia Koukoulas 

Senior Production Coordinator
Joëlle Lapointe 

Production Coordinators
Alexandra Bourque
Coralie Dumoulin
Chinda Phommarinh 

Studio Coordinator
Gabrielle Dupont 

Technical Coordinators
Daniel Claveau
Mira Mailhot

Line Producer
Mélanie Lasnier 

Executive Producer
Nathalie Cloutier  

French Program
Documentary Studio 

A National Film Board of Canada Production 

nfb.ca 

 © NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, 2022 



Team


Garine Papazian-Zohrabian 
Central Character


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Hélène Magny
Director, Writer, Researcher


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Nathalie Cloutier
Producer (NFB)


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Photo : Sophie Quevillon



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