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Three thousand people from over 20 nations live here in confined conditions in buildings that have never been painted, with lifts that only occasionally work. The community is one of the most densely populated on the earth. Modern France \u2013 for its inhabitants a mere postcard dream. Epinay-sur-Seine is one of the banlieues, or Paris suburbs, where riots erupted in 2005.<br \/>\nAli\u2019s grocery store is the neighbourhoods most important meeting place. Although he has problems of his own \u2013 the roof leaks and he doesn\u2019t have enough money to repair it \u2013 Ali greets each of his customers with a welcoming smile. Some of them he\u2019s known since they were born.<br \/>\nChantal Briet\u2019s award-winning documentary is a moving, often amusing account of everyday life in a so-called social hotspot: children and pensioners, workers and housewives all come to Ali\u2019s store to pass the time, gossip, sometimes sing, and then they leave again. The supermarket that gives the film its title is a comfort zone in a neighbourhood in which public authorities, urban planners and architects have failed in every respect.<\/p>\n<p>Film programme Broken Landscapes<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Awards for \u203aAlimentation G\u00e9n\u00e9rale\u2039<\/strong><br \/>\nGrand Prix Doclisboa Odisseia for the best feature documentary, Festival DocLisboa 2005 | Grand Prix du Jury, Documenta Festival Madrid 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18770,"template":"","movie_year":[522],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[427],"festival":[596],"class_list":["post-12947","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-522","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-focus-en-2015","festival-2015-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The General Store - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/the-general-store\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The General Store - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ali\u2019s grocery store is the only store in the \u00bbLa Source\u00ab neighbourhood that has remained in business since the shopping [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/the-general-store\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IFFF.Dortmund.Koeln\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-20T09:13:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IFFF2015_AlimentationGenerale_4-3_website.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"726\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@frauenfilmfest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/the-general-store\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/the-general-store\\\/\",\"name\":\"The General Store - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/the-general-store\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/the-general-store\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/IFFF2015_AlimentationGenerale_4-3_website.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-17T13:31:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-20T09:13:14+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/the-general-store\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/the-general-store\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/the-general-store\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/IFFF2015_AlimentationGenerale_4-3_website.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/IFFF2015_AlimentationGenerale_4-3_website.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":726,\"caption\":\"Film still from The General Store. 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