During the Algerian War of independence, 2.35 million Algerian civilians were forcibly displaced by the French Army and resettled in camps. 1.175 million were forced to leave their home. In Mansourah, his native village, Malek and his daughter Dorothee-Myriam document this silenced memory, that the youth ignores and was unprecedented in the upheavals it has caused to rural Algeria. Between France and Algeria, Dorothee-Myriam and her father uncover this historical secret.
Preceded by:
AVANT SERIANA
Samy Benammar / 2024 / France, Algeria, Canada / 19 min / French, Arabic, Kabyle with French subtitles
Mom, you brought me back to our homeland. All I know about it I learned from books written by the hand that burned our mountains. I try to undo the colonial myths engraved into my memory, but the hills escape my gaze. Do you think I, too, have become the white djinn spoken of by the legends surrounding our martyrs?
- Saturday, May 23
20:15 - FST
FST - French subtitles
EST - English subtitles
E/FST - Bilingual subtitles
