Until November 10, 2012, L’ECLAT is hosting three evenings of screenings led by Philippe Azoury to discover the “Young Algeria,” featuring the “filmmaker-geographer” Tariq Teguia°, and a day of screenings and meetings with young Algerian and French filmmakers.
In parallel to these three days of meetings, L’ECLAT will present on Saturday, November 10, a selection of young Algerian films, in partnership with the Bejaïa Festival. This event is a day of continuous screenings during which young Algerian and French filmmakers and producers present their films and engage with other guest filmmakers and the attending audience.
Wednesday, November 7 at 6pm: Conference – “Thinking in Sound” written on a post-it by Daniel Deshays, sound engineer and sound theorist as part of the Villa Arson conference program.
Unbeknownst to us, sound shapes our perception of images, acting as a converter. More than just carrying meaning, sound is an energetic vector that permeates us, filled with data from the visible or the invisible. Sound leads us to the depths … ]
Wednesday, November 7 at 8pm: Rome Rather Than You by Tariq Teguia (France/Algeria, 2006, 1h51) followed by a discussion with Tariq Teguia – moderated by Philippe Azoury, journalist.
For the past ten years, Algeria has been engulfed in a war claiming over 100,000 lives, a war that hides its true nature. In Algiers, still desolate from the war, Tariq Teguia depicts Zina and Kamel, who roam their city once more before potentially leaving it behind.
Thursday, November 8 at 6pm: Master Class by Tariq Teguia in dialogue with Philippe Azoury with excerpts from his filmography.
Thursday, November 8 at 8pm: Inland (Gabbla) by Tariq Teguia (France/Algeria, 2008, 2h20) awarded the Grand Prize and Best Actress Prize at the Belfort Film Festival followed by a discussion with Tariq Teguia, Daniel Deshays, and Philippe Azoury.
While living in seclusion, Malek, a topographer in his forties, accepts a mission in a region in western Algeria at the behest of his friend Lakhdar. The Oran-based study office where he was recently employed …
Having Twenty in the Aurès by René Vautier (France, 1972, 1h40) Grand Prize of the International Critics at the 1972 Cannes Festival presented by Philippe Azoury.
A group of resistant and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. Faced with the horrors of war, they gradually become killing machines. One of them refuses to comply and deserts, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was supposed to be […]
Ask Your Shadow by Lamine Ammar-Khodja (Fr., 2012, 1h22) First Film Prize at the FID Marseille 2012 – presented by Philippe Azoury.
Eight years after leaving his native Algeria for France, Lamine Ammar-Khodja decides to end his exile on January 6, 2011, the start date of the popular riots in Algiers. The film, organized chronologically, narrates the events.
Saturday, November 10 from 11am to 5pm: Art session-Discovery of young filmmakers from the two shores of the Mediterranean, open to all.
A day of continuous screenings and meetings with young Algerian filmmakers and producers (Narimane Mari and Djamil Beloucif), French filmmakers (Pierre Michelon and Natacha Cyrulnik) with insights from journalist Philippe Azoury and Geneviève Houssay, head of the cinema audiovisual department at MUCEM – Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean – Marseille.
We, Outside by Bahïa Bencheikh El Fegoun and Meriem Achour Bouakkaz (Algeria, in development) in the presence of Narimane Mari, the film’s producer.
A masculine public space, women’s bodies disconcert. Neither men nor women know what to do with this feminine body, so it is veiled. This film encounters women seeking meaning, questioning themselves to confront.
Bir d’eau, a walkmovie by Djamil Beloucif (Algeria, 2010, 1h17) in the presence of the filmmaker.
An ordinary day on a street in Algiers where a film is made and unmade under the watchful eye of a camera. A unique, sincere, and tender portrait of Algiers and its inhabitants. A play between fiction and reality. A questioning of the place of the camera, on the […]
Risacca non erra by Pierre Michelon (France, 2011, 52’) in the presence of the filmmaker.
No wandering or error in the perpetual movement of waves, nor in that of their backwash: Emigration here and immigration there are two inseparable sides of the same reality. Between the shores of Nice and those of Annaba, Risacca non erra offers.
Algerian Traces: A Part of Me, From Another Time by Natacha Cyrulnik (France, 2011, 32’) in the presence of the filmmaker.
Approaching Algeria when you are in France means talking about the past in daily life. In the first film of the series, we address this subject through two women. The first fled Algiers in a hurry at 10 years old, and the second chose to come live in France.
