Miloud Khetib

Cezayirli çiftçi Fatah’ın en büyük hayali bir gün ineği Jacqueline ile birlikte Paris Uluslararası Tarım Fuarı’na katılmaktır. Yıllardır beklediği ve hayalini kurduğu daveti sonunda alır.

In 1955, a year after the birth of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities who feared his revolutionary speeches. At the age of 27, he arrived in the Algerian slum of Nanterre. Roughly questioned by FLN activists, in disagreement with the Algerian Nationalist Movement (MNA) who wanted to recognize theirs, he was then accepted as the local hairdresser and shoemaker. Subsequently, he became a driver during anti-MNA expeditions. Accepting increasingly dangerous missions, he is imprisoned by the French police and once again undergoes interrogations and special treatment by the police which will definitively undermine his sanity. One day, he no longer recognized his companions, and when joy broke out among the FLN militants, at the announcement of the signing of the Evian Accords, Mahmoud remained alone, frozen in an attitude of refusal, walled in his madness. Algeria has just won its independence.

Cezayirli bir ailenin oğlu olan 26 yaşındaki Farid Fransa’da doğup büyümüş bir hukuk öğrencisidir. Babası hasta düşüp, baba ocağını yıkılmaktan kurtarmak üzere kendisini Cezayir’e gönderince Farid daha önce hiç gitmediği, dilini ve kültürünü bile bilmediği bir ülkeyi ve köklerini keşfetmeye başlar. Ancak babasının köyünde beklemediği bir şekilde, mizah ve dürüstlüklerinden etkilendiği bir grup memleketlisi yavaş yavaş Farid’in dostluğunu kazanır. Fransa’ya göç etme hayali kuran adaşı ve cin fikirli genç kuzeni de onların arasındadır.

In the civil war that tore apart Algeria in the 1990s, police chief Brahim Llob hunts down Islamist extremists on a daily basis. Having become the favorite target for them, it is with fear that he goes every morning to his office at the Central Commissariat of Algiers. Annoyed by the power in place, preparing to publish a whistle-blower book, Morituri, Llob is obliged to take early retirement.

1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions.

Mehdi is an algérien writer that fundamentalist violence has transformed into a potential target. How to live with fear when everything is fear. But also life. Facing Mehdi is Ania, an algerian-born Frenchwoman, the woman next door. She often appears at her window on the court. A disturbing vis-à-vis. Ania will unceasingly try to convert this man to the culture of life, to burning passion. By bringing him tea regularly, risking to often find the door closed...

In a working-class immigrant neighborhood slated for demolition, Jo, the son of Ali, known as the Rescuer from the Algerian war, lives idle and delinquent, committing small assaults to pay for his drugs. One day, while attacking Slim's bar, he is arrested by Ben, a young beur cop torn between his roots and the imperatives of his mission to maintain public order. Giving in to the respect and friendship he feels for Ali, Ben agrees to release his son. But alas, far from calming down, Jo drifts deeper into violence, until the inevitable drama.

A young gay man falls head over heels in love with an Algerian labourer he meets in transvestite bar where he is a regular.