Kabylifornie

With a laptop, a few family videos and the power of the stage, Agathe Yamina Meziani revisits her story, from laughter to tears. 

Belgo-Kabyle-Greek artist Agathe Yamina Meziani sets out to explore a territory that is at once close and distant: Kabylia, her father’s homeland. Drawing on family archives and memories gathered in the course of her research, she pieces together a personal narrative where memory moves between fiction and reality.

Kabylifornie tells the story of her family with humour and self-deprecation. Journeys by car, awkward jokes, moments of silence … The artist evokes the father figure through anecdotes that sketch the portrait of a relationship that is not always straightforward. But beneath the apparent light-heartedness lie other layers, legacies loaded with violence and unspoken truths. At the crossroads of stand-up and theatre, Agathe Yamina Meziani delivers a performance as funny as it is moving on the construction of identity and the complicated paths of reconciliation without forgiveness.

The stories discussed refer to domestic violence and suicide

Season 2025·2026