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- Jo gets out of prison after 15 years after a big heist, and most is changed in his old neighborhood. New gangs and different lives. He's even got a son, which he didn't know about. He is back, and that stirs up the neighborhood.
- An investigative film shot in Algeria, Greece and France, this documentary offers to look, with the writings of Camus as a reference, at what is happening around us and how the absurd and the revolt cannot prevent the search for happiness.
- Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo's feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the film and interviews with personalities, the filmmaker retraces the journey of a major work - from the events of the Algiers Casbah (1956-1957) to the presentation of the Lion of 'Or causing the anger of the French delegation in Venice - which left its mark as much in the history of cinema as in that of Algeria. The Battle of Algiers, the imprint is interested in the relationship between history and cinema in the work of Gillo Pontecorvo, showing the reciprocity between reality and fiction such as the capture of Yacef Saadi for example, seen by the television news of the era and by an extract from the film. The documentary underlines the "absolute quest for the truth" desired by Pontecorvo, collecting stories from both Algerians such as the work written by Saadi in 1962, and French stories through the oral testimonies of the paratroopers, in order to construct a factual story beyond all censorship. The torture used by the French army and shown in the film was one of the reasons for its ban until 2004. Finally, Cheikh Djemaï questions the historical legacy left by The Battle of Algiers in the collective Algerian consciousness. He notes that fiction has supplanted history, on the predominant role of Algiers compared to the rest of the country in the war led by the FLN for example, or even on the place of Ali La Pointe, a figure of the Resistance whose the symbolic importance rests entirely on the film.
- Your untangled hair hides a 7 year war. Cross-look of three women engaged alongside the FLN on colonization and the Algerian war of independence. They will know the clandestine, the prison, the torture, the psychiatric hospital. It is at the twilight of their lives that they choose to testify, after decades of silence. With clarity and modesty, they tell the story of colonial Algeria, segregation, racism, anti-Semitism, prison, torture, solidarity, freedom and also the nature that invigorates, soothing landscapes, music and poetry that allow the breakaway .
- With Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus as a reference, the film follows what is happening around us: the fate of migrants, Sisyphus of our time, who are still trying and trying to enter Europe, the popular revolt in Tunisia, or radical actions.
- By meeting his former comrades in combat, the film follows the journey of Yves Mathieu, anti-colonialist in Black Africa then lawyer for the FLN. Upon Algeria's independence, he drafted the March Decrees on vacant property and self-management, promulgated in 1963 by Ahmed Ben Bella. Yves Mathieu's life is punctuated by his commitments in an Algeria that was then called "The Lighthouse of the Third World". The director, who is his daughter, looks back on the conditions of his death in 1966.