Country: Algeria, France
Year: 2013
Duration: 77'
A group of children is playing in the sand and the waves on a beach in Algeria. Around them, a drama of historical dimensions is unfolding: their country is in flames, devastated by the war between nationalist troops and the French army. Through the children’s imagination and carefree gaiety, the tragedy assumes the contours of a game, in which stealing food from the French soldiers is a pastime more than a need. But the world of adults will soon demand its toll of blood.
Biography
film director
Narimane Mari
Narimane Mari (Algiers, Algeria, 1969) began her filmcareer in 2001 by producing films. In 2006 she founded the company Centrale Électrique, aiming to help directors and artists engaged with their contemporary history. In 2007 she made her first short film Prologue, about the artist Michel Haas. She then directed Scholars in the Land of Islam (2011), ninety episodes of animation for the Algerian national television. Bloody Beans (2013), her first fiction film, was selected at more than fifty film festivals and received the Grand Prix at FIDMarseille. Mari’s second feature, the documentary Les fort des fous (2017) had its world premiere in Locarno. In 2015 she produced Round About in My Head by Hassen Ferhani, Grand Prix FID, Grand Prix Torino Film Festival. Le fort des fous, her second feature film, which premiered at Locarno Film Festival, was presented at DOCUMENTA 14 as an installation. Today, she’s editing her next film We Had the Day, Bonsoir!
FILMOGRAFIA
Prologue (cm, doc., 2007), Loubia Hamra (doc., 2013), Le fort des fous (doc., 2017), Holy Days (mm, doc., 2019).
Declaration
film director
“It is not a movie about heroism at all. And I did not want that either. It was mainly a job with children, as much when we were acting as when showing them. No leader here! Some of them may stand out, but never for long. I can say that the childhood, that they all have in common, is the hero of the movie, but I don’t want to say that either. Maybe because heroes die at the end of the movies and sacrifice themselves in real life, while childhood should never die or be sacrificed, so no need of a hero.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, PRODUTTORE
Narimane Mari
FOTOGRAFIA
Nasser Madjkane
MONTAGGIO
Caroline Detournay, Anita Roth, Narimane Mari
MUSICA
Zombie Zombie, Cosmic Neman, Etienne Jeman
SUONO
Guillaume Pellerin, Olivier Luce, Benjamin Laurent
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Adlane Aïssani (Tarzan), Amir Nourine (Amir), Chems-Eddine Boudjema (Chemsi), Feyçal Ould Larbi (Feycal), Ghania Aïssani (Lilia), Housseim Eddine Chatouani (Chozi), Haïtem Hala (Boyka), Kawtar Bakir (Poupouna), Madjid Bouabdellah (Madjid), Mounir Laïd (Mounir), Mohamed Brahimi (Taliani), Nassim Brahimi (Nassim), Nedjmeddine Benarafa (l’egiziano/the Egyptian), Rehab Bakir (Poupounetta), Rabam Issam Hadj Aïssa (L’mucho), Yacine Bennou (Bone Has Marrow)
PRODUZIONE
Allers Retours Films
COPRODUTTORI
Arnaud Dommerc, Olivier Boischot, Jean-Baptiste Legrand
COPRODUZIONE
Andolfi, Centrale Electrique
CONTATTI
Allers et retours Films
Narimane Mari
Tel: + 213 055 579 86 19
narimanemari@gmail.com
Narimane Mari
FOTOGRAFIA
Nasser Madjkane
MONTAGGIO
Caroline Detournay, Anita Roth, Narimane Mari
MUSICA
Zombie Zombie, Cosmic Neman, Etienne Jeman
SUONO
Guillaume Pellerin, Olivier Luce, Benjamin Laurent
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Adlane Aïssani (Tarzan), Amir Nourine (Amir), Chems-Eddine Boudjema (Chemsi), Feyçal Ould Larbi (Feycal), Ghania Aïssani (Lilia), Housseim Eddine Chatouani (Chozi), Haïtem Hala (Boyka), Kawtar Bakir (Poupouna), Madjid Bouabdellah (Madjid), Mounir Laïd (Mounir), Mohamed Brahimi (Taliani), Nassim Brahimi (Nassim), Nedjmeddine Benarafa (l’egiziano/the Egyptian), Rehab Bakir (Poupounetta), Rabam Issam Hadj Aïssa (L’mucho), Yacine Bennou (Bone Has Marrow)
PRODUZIONE
Allers Retours Films
COPRODUTTORI
Arnaud Dommerc, Olivier Boischot, Jean-Baptiste Legrand
COPRODUZIONE
Andolfi, Centrale Electrique
CONTATTI
Allers et retours Films
Narimane Mari
Tel: + 213 055 579 86 19
narimanemari@gmail.com
