Ceasefire
(Cessez-le-Feu) by Ahmed Zir. Algeria/France, 2003, 15
min, Beta SP US première
A young Algerian shepherd is too poor to afford schooling. When
airplanes drop leaflets announcing a cease-fire ending the civil
war, he becomes driven by the stubborn determination of despair
and resorts to every means possible to decipher the text and to
force his way into a classroom. In Arabic with English subtitles.