Algeria

Deadlock
Lucien Beucher
Mahdi Boucif
Documentary
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Short
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9
 mins
Stuck in their Algiers neighborhood, Sifou and Mahrez gaze at the sea, thinking of their brothers who left in search of better lives. As uncertainty lingers, they wonder if they can break the deadlock
Bladi | My Country
Leila Gamaz
Narrative
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Short
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5
 mins
Drawing on family experience of destitution in 80s Paris, Bladi | My Country uses archives and fragmented memories to explore how displacement is embodied across generations
NYA
Imene Ayadi
Drama
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Short
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16
 mins
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
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.
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.
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.
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.