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Bled Number 1, by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche. Algeria/France, 2006, 100 minutes 
Screening formats available: 35 mm and DVD
Synopsis:
A follow-up to his well-regarded debut "Wesh-Wesh", Bled Number One is a slice-of-life film that speaks volumes about the conditions of life in today’s Algeria. Kamel is deported from France back to his native Algeria after being released from prison. There he finds that beneath the veneer of tranquil and bucolic village life lays an intense struggle between many forces – religion, secularism, modernity, and notions of tradition and honor. He watches as these conflicts mar the lives of the townsfolk around him. Kamel's cousin Louisa, who has taken her young son and left her husband, is violently received when she returns home to her mother and brother. A gang of young men, claiming to be acting in the name of religion, harass those who they deem to be offending it. With this tempestuous backdrop, Kamel must decide whether his birthplace is really is home.
Filmmaker’s Biography:
A long-time lover of cinema, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche decided in 2001, armed with a small DV camcorder, to direct Wesh, Wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe? with a few friends, a film on a sensitive subject: the difficult re-insertion into the working world of a former delinquent. The young director took as a frame for his story the Cité des Bosquets in Seine-Saint Denis, a place that he has known well since childhood. This first shot took the Léo Sheer prize urging its distribution at the International Festival of Film de Belfort in 2001. In 2005, he signed his second production, Bled number one, in which he plays a former prisoner expelled from his country of origin, Algeria, a country that he reveals through European eyes.
Credits:
Producer: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Writers: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Louise Thermes
Cinematography: Lionel Sautier, Hakim Si Ahmed, Olivier Smittarello
Editor: Nicolas Bancilhon
Music: Rodolphe Burger
Cast: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Meriem Serbah, Abel Jafr
Screening fee: free
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