Derived from the Arabic root "h-r-g", Harga is a neologism meaning "to burn". In other words, the act of illegally leaving North Africa for Europe.

Bader, Youssef, Mohamed, Habib and Mohamed Amine. Through these five intimate and sensitive testimonies, we shed light on the families of missing Tunisians. How do they mourn without a body? How does the family unit survive an unspeakable disappearance? What psychological impact does this trauma have on their loved ones? What do these disappearances say about the economic situation of young Tunisians?

"La terre absorbe et le coeur guérit" is a hybrid audiovisual project at the intersection of social sciences and art, psychology and photography. It aims to break through the invisibility of figures, to humanize the act of resistance and resilience of families, often feeling isolated, who set out in search of traces of their missing children.

The work includes fragments of psychological interviews filmed with the families of the disappeared. In addition, a cell phone device will allow us to enter the imaginary world of the young Tunisians:
- the imaginary world of the young Tunisians seeking exile from Tik-tok
- the process of militancy in which the families of the disappeared find an "emergency door", a cry for help amplified by the use of social networks.
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Séverine Sajous / التراب یجبد والقلب یبرد La terre absorbe et l e coeur guérit - Polysemies of silence 

Collaboration : Hamza Msalmi, Yassine Bouchneb and Dhia Msolli

Production : Séverine Sajous and Coreographix

Support with the editing : QR + ploter

Acknowledgements: to all the families who participated in the project, Alya Ben Abderrahman, Nina Gueddar, Loup Blaster, Sabers migrants and Jiser.

Séverine Sajous (16/12/1981, Pau) is a French photographer and filmmaker with a degree in Linguistics. She is deeply interested in people and the human condition, and enjoys working collaboratively with her subjects, allowing them to develop their own artistic abilities and express themselves directly. She uses the visual medium to engage with the world and encourage more critical thinking. To date, most of her work focuses on migration and refugee issues. In 2015 he co-founded the charity Jungleye, (https://jungleye.org/) which has benefited from a series of projects that engage communities through a participatory practice of photography. He combines artistic direction of the charity in different contexts, with his own photographic and film projects. Since 2016 she has been working on a trilogy of short films that draw on the invented common vocabulary to redefine the act of migrating and communicate the collective experience. Her first short films, "Password: Fajara" and "#boza", were awarded in several festivals. Currently based in Tunisia, she is developing the third chapter of this trilogy around the impact of the family on the act of migrating from the reappropriation of the word "Harka" which means "to burn" -migrate in Maghrebi slang-. "The earth absorbs and the heart heals" is part of this research in progress.