SABABA FILM & TALK is an evening in two parts. First, a screening of the documentary SABABA, The Fabulous Chronicles of Moshe Zaoui. Then, the audience takes the floor.
The film exists in three versions, including one presented during the Cannes Film Festival, and a 52-minute cut designed to leave room for discussion. Each screening becomes a moment of cinema, dialogue and transmission.
The evening can stay simple, a screening followed by a Q&A, or become a larger event with public figures, officials, community leaders or artists, depending on the venue and the partner.
For institutions, associations, local authorities, schools and cinemas, in Israel, France and the diaspora.
A SABABA EVENING
The standard format runs one hour and forty-five minutes. A short introduction, the film, then about forty minutes of discussion with the audience. If the partner wishes, the evening can extend to two and a half hours, with guests, a panel or a musical moment.
The evening belongs to the partner. Its president, a representative or a figure of its choice welcomes the audience, leads the discussion and sets the tone. SABABA MÉDIAS prepares the ground in advance, proposes topics for discussion and suggests guests. The partner thus appears as the organiser and the voice of the event.
SABABA MÉDIAS is a web magazine devoted to Jewish arts and cultures. The team organised the film’s premiere on May 14, 2026, at the Théâtre Alexandre III, during the Cannes Film Festival, and brings together a network of artists, community leaders and public figures who can join an evening. Its presence on social media gives each screening immediate reach: the film’s trailer passed 150,000 views in twenty-four hours.
In practice, SABABA MÉDIAS provides the film as a DCP or digital file, along with a ready-to-use communication kit: customisable poster, trailer, social media visuals. The partner provides the venue, its audience and, if it wishes, its guests. Each programme is built together, from a single screening to a series of several dates. The film is in French with English subtitles, for France, Israel and diaspora communities.
SABABA, THE FABULOUS CHRONICLES OF MOSHE ZAOUI
After October 7, an extraordinary journalist investigates from France the mobilisation for the hostages and the rise of antisemitism.
Moshe Zaoui, 83, singer, dancer and journalist, leads the investigation. He meets the collectives who refuse to forget the hostages held in the tunnels of Gaza, and those targeted by the rise of antisemitism.
Week after week, Moshe films the rallies, the witnesses, the solidarity events. His camera also turns to the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and the tensions they create in public space.
He gathers the testimonies of a member of parliament who has received death threats, and of a rabbi who was assaulted. For two years, in France, Canada and Israel, from Paris to Marseille, he films this new reality, between fear, commitment and the will to live. At the opening of the film, Richard Berry puts it another way. Since October 7, the country has been holding its breath; October 8 never came.
Encounter after encounter, one question emerges. What does it mean to be Jewish after October 7?
Moshe answers tragedy with laughter, song, dance, and by founding SABABA MÉDIAS.
