Mon pays au matin calme

Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a Japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young Dutch girl in Paris.

Mahfoud is a young teacher at a technical school in Algiers. Using his technical and computer skills, he refurbishes an old weaving loom that he intends to present at an international inventors’ conference in Germany. However, his travel plans are thwarted by administrative obstacles. Meanwhile, his neighbors keep a close eye on him, especially the elderly M’nouar, marked by the terrible memories of the Algerian War. He sees everything and everyone with suspicion. As far as he is concerned, Mahfoud has no good intentions—he may even be involved in subversive activities. Naturally, it does not help that Mahfoud is in a relationship with Samia, a young psychiatrist who has returned to the country after studying in Belgium. She challenges local norms and breaks taboos that unsettle those around her. In the end, Mahfoud manages to obtain a visa to attend the international fair. His invention wins a prize, and when he returns home, he receives a very different kind of welcome.

Directed by Kamal Dehane

Born in Constantine in 1929, and having lived for many years in France and elsewhere in Europe, Kateb Yacine was one of the most celebrated and pioneering writers of the Maghreb—a poet, novelist, and playwright. In this film, Kateb Yacine reflects on his work, his ideas, and his life. Through his memories, an extraordinary journey unfolds. The images he arranges like a deck of cards provide the keys to understanding his singular path. He quietly enters our imagination, awakening in us the desire to join him in his unfulfilled quest: the search for memory.

Otomar Krejča, the son of a peasant, retained from his childhood in the countryside a deep sense of his roots and the cycle of the seasons. From an early age, his vocation as an actor drew him to the capital. He became an actor, stage director, and head of drama at the National Theatre in Prague, the foremost stage in Bohemia.

Directed by Kamal Dehane.

Algeria is written in the feminine. In a society where the gaze is only masculine, another eye is nonetheless present… The feminine gaze—unsettling, disturbing modesty, breaking taboos, freeing speech… It emerges from the shadows: with Assia Djebar, Algerian writer-historian, we go to meet Algerian women of all generations to enter into their lives, their daily routines, this world where the gaze is supposed to be forbidden. These women tell their own stories, imposing their gaze on the camera for a journey into this half of Algeria condemned to silence… to a clandestine life.