Pan-Arab distributor Mad Solutions has acquired world rights to Algerian multi-hyphenate Chakib Taleb Bendiab’s upcoming thriller “Algiers” that delves into the local phenomenon of child abduction.
The film is set against the backdrop of collective scars left by the country’s 1992-2002 civil war, known as the Black Decade.
“Algiers” is the first feature by Bendiab, a writer/director and composer whose short “Black Spirits” – an African Samurai tale set in the Tunisian Sahara performed by French and Japanese actors – made a splash on the fest circuit.
In “Algiers” the kidnapping of a young girl creates tension and suspicion in the Algerian capital. Only Dounia, a brilliant psychiatrist, and Sami, a police inspector, can unearth the demons of the past,” reads the film’s official synopsis.
“Algiers,” which is now in post, will be distributed theatrically throughout the Arab world via Mad Distribution, while Mad World, the company’s newly established international sales arm,...
The film is set against the backdrop of collective scars left by the country’s 1992-2002 civil war, known as the Black Decade.
“Algiers” is the first feature by Bendiab, a writer/director and composer whose short “Black Spirits” – an African Samurai tale set in the Tunisian Sahara performed by French and Japanese actors – made a splash on the fest circuit.
In “Algiers” the kidnapping of a young girl creates tension and suspicion in the Algerian capital. Only Dounia, a brilliant psychiatrist, and Sami, a police inspector, can unearth the demons of the past,” reads the film’s official synopsis.
“Algiers,” which is now in post, will be distributed theatrically throughout the Arab world via Mad Distribution, while Mad World, the company’s newly established international sales arm,...
- 5/22/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
De nos frères blessés
Seven years after his lauded 2013 debut Vandal, Hélier Cisterne (an actor we caught in John Shank’s Last Winter) returns with De nos frères blesses (Of Our Injured Brothers), produced by Justin Taurand. Cisterne nabs Vicky Krieps and Vincent Lacoste in the leads, with support from Hassen Ferhani (the documentary director making his acting debut) and Meriem Medjkrane. Hichame Alaouie serves as Dp. Cisterne’s 2013 debut Vandal won the Louis-Delluc Award for Best Debut Film in 2013.
Gist: Based on a novel by Joseph Andras, the script is co-written by director Katell Quillevere, Ferand is arrested in a 1956 Algiers factory for planting a bomb while his wife refuses to abandon him.…...
Seven years after his lauded 2013 debut Vandal, Hélier Cisterne (an actor we caught in John Shank’s Last Winter) returns with De nos frères blesses (Of Our Injured Brothers), produced by Justin Taurand. Cisterne nabs Vicky Krieps and Vincent Lacoste in the leads, with support from Hassen Ferhani (the documentary director making his acting debut) and Meriem Medjkrane. Hichame Alaouie serves as Dp. Cisterne’s 2013 debut Vandal won the Louis-Delluc Award for Best Debut Film in 2013.
Gist: Based on a novel by Joseph Andras, the script is co-written by director Katell Quillevere, Ferand is arrested in a 1956 Algiers factory for planting a bomb while his wife refuses to abandon him.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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