Suburb of Algiers, 1994. 7-year-old Anya lives in a world unaware of the civil war. She yearns for her father, a journalist, to return for the Mouloud. However, reality intrudes, eroding her childhood
The Moped and the Goldfinch
Amir Bensaïfi
Drama
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Short
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13
mins
Moufida decides to cross the country on a moped to see her lover in Algiers. Finding herself confronted with the author of her story, a discussion between the two begins generating some tension.
DESERT PHOSfate
Mohamed Sleiman Labat
Experimental
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Feature
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57
mins
DESERT PHOSfate weaves through the story of phosphate, exploring the multi-layered narrations about connections to land, sand particles, plants, human and mineral displacement.
And still, it remains
Arwa Aburawa
Turab Shah
Experimental
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Short
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28
mins
'And still, it remains' is a meditation on time, justice and the afterlives of French nuclear toxicity in the Algerian Sahara.
The Foreign Land
Nael Zaiti Ruelle
Drama
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Short
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19
mins
Farida is back in her father’s native Algeria for the first me since she was a child. She discovers her grandmother’s house in the middle of the countryside. When the night comes, her sleep is disturbed by an intruder.