After the books, the cinema.
Diam's returns to the front of the stage with the documentary
Salam,
an intimate portrait that traces his years of triumph, his psychological problems or his conversion to Islam.
Written and directed with directors Houda Benyamina and Anne Cissé, the film will be presented in a special screening at Cannes.
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“For the first time facing the camera, she confides in glory, psychiatry, the quest for meaning and her conversion to Islam. She takes us in the footsteps of Diam's and reveals in this intimate and modest story the secrets of her story
", specifies a press release from BrutX, the streaming platform of the digital media Brut, producer of the film.
Before adding: "Salam
thus shows the difficulties of existing in the eyes of others, of the public, and addresses the issue of mental health in a great French artist and the delicate choice to change her life".
Rare appearances
This is not the first time that Diam's, alias Mélanie Georgiades, has opened up about her journey.
After announcing the end of her career in 2012, the rapper revealed herself widely in an autobiography in which she already addressed the particularly painful episodes of her life.
Descent into hell punctuated by the spiral of drugs swallowed to support anxiety and insomnia, loneliness, depression, stay in a psychiatric hospital... In
Diam's, Mélanie Georgiades, autobiography
, the singer did not skimp on the revelations.
Despite her withdrawal from the music scene, the singer has graced her fans with a few rare media appearances.
In 2015 in particular, to promote his other autobiography
Mélanie Française et Musulman
, Diam's answered questions from Thierry Demaizière on the show
Sept à eight.
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In 2019, she confided in the Saudi press, returning to the period which saw her radically change her personality.
Sad and alone before Islam, she said then, she mentioned her daily life as a fulfilled and peaceful mother.
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