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Algerias, My Phantoms (Algéries, mes fantômes) by Jean-Pierre Lledo. Algeria, 2004, 106 min, DigiBeta US première Targeted by fundamentalist terrorism, Algerian filmmaker Jean Pierre Lledo finds himself in France, forty years after his community’s exodus and that of his own Jewish-Spanish family following Algeria’s independence in 1962. Haunted by the phantoms of a painful chapter in Algerian and French history, he embarks upon a journey to confront the taboos it involves. Lledo travels throughout France interviewing a range of Algerian exiles—Pieds-Noirs, Communists, Jews, anti-Fundamentalists, and even Harki (Muslim Algerians who fought on the side of the French during the war of independence). A common thread of longing and belonging ties these otherwise incompatible Algerian exiles to the one land they all call home. In French with English subtitles.
Tue, Nov 8, 9:00.
Q & A with producer Rachida Lledo |
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Cast and Crew: Producer: Rachida Mekki |
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Filmmaker Bio: Jean-Pierre Lledo was born in Algeria in 1947. He completed his film direction studies at the Moscow Institute of Cinema in 1976 and has since written and directed many award-wining films. He worked in Algeria from 1977 until 1993, where he made two fiction films, Lumières and L’Empire des Rêves (1989), and many documentaries, of which two were censured and never broadcast: Le Flambeau Brûlera Toujours and Comment Ca Va (1978). The negatives of Comment Ca Va have disappeared. Lledo was forced to leave Algeria for security reasons in June 1993. In France he made Algerias, My Phantoms (2004) and An Algerian Dream (2003) which won First Prize for Documentary Film, Montreal 2004 and was selected by many festivals including San Sebastian, Cambridge, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Paris and Locarno. |
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Print Source: ISKRA |
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