Pacific Club(2023)

Name: Pacific Club
Director: Valentin Noujaïm
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-01-01
Duration: 16 min
Cast: Azedine Benabdelmoumene, Taos Bertrand, Julien Mézence

Azedine Benabdelmoumene Taos Bertrand Julien Mézence

In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense - the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of integrating into France but who soon came face to face with racism, the AIDS epidemic, and heroin.