Sans Soleil Sans Soleil Sans Soleil (, "Sunless") is a 1983 French documentary directed by Chris Marker, a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. In a 2014 "Sight and Sound" poll, film critics voted "Sans Soleil" the third best documentary film of all time. The title "Sans Soleil" is from the song cycle "Sunless" by Modest Mussorgsky. Expanding the documentary genre, this experimental essay-film is a composition of thoughts, images and scenes, mainly from Japan and
Cité Soleil force. During the mid-1990s, the city's population was terrorized by armed gangs which drove the local police out; this situation prevented officials aid workers from intervening to provide help. In 1999, Cité Soleil was set on fire by a gang and at least 50 shacks were burned. By 2002, the violence escalated as the gangs began warring with each other in addition to preying on ordinary people. Many inhabitants had temporarily left to escape the turmoil. In a series of operations from 2004 to 2007, UN peacekeepers tried to seize control from the gangs in Cité Soleil and end the