La bobine (2013)

Originally born in Tunis, Jacques Haïk arrived in Paris at the turn of the 20th century as a teenage boy, later to become a notable showbiz personality. Haïk became the major rival of renowned studios Pathé and Gaumont. He also built two mythical Parisian venues, the Rex and the Olympia. After WWII, he revolutionized the Arabic film industry by distributing Egyptian films across all of North Africa. And yet today, his name has nearly vanished from cinema history. Thanks to a film reel deemed as the first test for talking cinema, we'll meet this brilliant, visionary man, whose steps have proved so hard to trace.