Ghani Mahdi dans Je suis parti cinq minutes... ça fait 35 ans

In this funny, poetic, and autobiographical one-man show, Ghani Mahdi recounts departure, borders, papers, accents, encounters, family left behind in the homeland, and that strange habit exile assumes: what was meant to be temporary ends up becoming a lifetime.

From Sétif to Geneva, from Paris to London, he travels through his own history through the eyes of a man who never ceased observing the contradictions of immigration, integration, and attachment to one's homeland. The show blends stand-up, autobiographical storytelling, poetry, music, silences, physical attitudes, and theatrical acting. Laughter remains at the core: an everyday situation can turn into a joke, then reveal, a few seconds later, whatever tenderness or pain it conceals.

“When you've lived everywhere, where do you go home to?”