loader image
Loading...

THE ENEMY

A project by Karim Ben Khelifa

In a room, two combatants face off. You’re in between them. Step up to meet them, listen while they explain what drove them to fights, to defend their land, their city, their family… all in the name of peace. The Enemy presents face-to-face confrontations exemplifying three long-standing conflict zones.
Once immersed, visitors meet and listen fighters reflect on their experiences and perspectives of war, which allow visitors to better understand their motivations.

This 300 m2 exhibition is now touring worldwide: it world premiered at the Arabic World Institute (Paris) in May, 2017. And has followed: Tel Aviv (June 2017), Boston (fall 2017), Montreal (spring 2018), Vancouver, Winnipeg, Seoul, Mons (fall 2018).

OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Karim Ben Khelifa

The author, Karim Ben Khelifa has freelanced as a war correspondent for such publications as Le Monde, Stern, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine and Newsweek covering, among others, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Kashmir, North Korea, Libya and Egypt. He has lived in Yemen, New York and Paris, and currently lives between Berlin and Boston.

Karim Ben Khelifa

Director

The Virtual Reality Installation

Meet face-to-face with combatants in a virtual-reality experience where you will hear testimonies from both sides of the same conflict.

Tour Dates

The Augmented-Reality App

Meet combatants in augmented reality through your smartphone. Hear testimonies from both sides of the same conflict and step into the community of The Enemy.

App Store The enemy

A project supported by Google

The Enemy is supported by Google’s European DNI Fund to promote its distribution throughout conflict zones and thus serve as a reconciliation tool. This distribution and the measure of its impact is entrusted to LRS.

Digital News Innovation Fund
EXECUTIVE TEAM
A project by Karim Ben Khelifa
Executive Producer: François Bertrand
Line Producer: Chloé Jarry
Project Manager: Hélène Adamo
Production Manager: Vincent Décis
Assisted by Silvia Alba & Caroline Bouffard
Graphic Designer: Gordon
Production Assistants: Thibault Bernard, Ana-Maria de Jesus, Matthieu Mainpin, Alexandra Ternant, Alessandra Bogi
Production coordinators: Céline Delaunay, Frédérique Dewynter
Production administration: Valérie Sieye, Anthony Donato, Stéphanie Garcia
VR experience distribution: Hélène Adamo
FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS NOUVELLES ÉCRITURES
Pierre Block de Friberg, Céline Limorato, Antonin Lhôte, Catherine Mugler
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
Executive Producer: Hugues Sweeney
Producers: Louis-Richard Tremblay, Marie-Pier Gauthier
Production Managers: Nathalie Bédard-Morin, Marie-Pier Gauthier
EMISSIVE
Line producers: Fabien Barati, Emmanuel Guerriero
Project Managers: Didier Mayda, Jennifer Havy
DPT
Executive producer and Creative director: Nicolas S.Roy
Production managers: Geneviève Trepanier, Stéphanie Emond
COPRODUCERS
Camera lucida productions, France TV – Nouvelles Ecritures, National Film board of Canada, Emissive, DPT.
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF DICRéAM, INA
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
The Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée – Nouvelles technologies en production et Fonds Nouveaux Médias, The TFI New Media Fund, The Ford Foundation, The Sundance Institute New Frontier Program, The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts, Doris Duke New Frontier Fellowship and the Open Society Foundations, The MIT Open Documentary Lab et le Arts Center for Art, Science and Technology at MIT, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, The Enemy has also been supported by Google Digital News Initiative.
EXHIBITIONS

Arab World Institute (France / 2017)
Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival (Israel / 2017)
Mit Museum (USA / 2017)
PHI Center (Canada / 2018)
Peace Week Geneva (Switzerland / 2018)

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

Official Selection at Tribeca Film Festival (2015)
Best International VR Exhibition Tour at Numix (2019)
Best Immersive Experience at Numix (2018)
Grand Prix at Numix (2018)
Prix Sensible at Geneva International Film Festival (2018)
Rose D’Or at Ebu Awards

Karim Ben Khelifa and his team have pushed documentary VR a huge way forward. The Enemy manages to lead viewers through a coherent, engaging experience for a full quarter tour. They’ve brought in structure and empathy as only story-tellers can.

Fergus Pitt
New-York

Amazing experience everyone should experience. Really eye opening and great way to use technology in an enlightening way for once.

Yasmen
Tel Aviv

Overwhelming. I had a hard time coming down … What a message and opportunity for self-reflection. Congratulations to everyone on the creative team for taking us on this journey.

Nancy
Paris

The Enemy is an unusual opportunity to see a fantastic new way to tell stories. (…) It takes journalism art and storytelling in directions I haven’t seen before.

Sree Sreenivasan
Toronto