A performative lecture by Léa Morin 
 
On 25th September 1967, the young Moroccan filmmaker Karim Idriss wrote a letter to the rector of the Łódź Film School in Poland. In this application for admission, he set out his career and his active participation in the struggle for a Moroccan cinema. A few years later, he wrote a letter to the Moroccan cultural journal Souffles about his documentary (which was later banned) Les enfants du Haouz (1970) about marginalised adolescents in Morocco. Despite extensive research, this film has remained untraceable; the same is true for the last film Idriss had made in Poland: Et l’exil de tous les jours. 
 
Based on these two letters, as well as the missing films, documents, photographs, film excerpts and rushes, Léa Morin’s lecture performance follows the desires and halted dreams of Karim Idriss. From trace to trace, a constellation of parallel unfinished cinematic stories emerges.