Country: France
Year: 2014
Duration: 82'
Standing in front of the Sierra Maestra cinema in Algiers, which was restructured after a glorious past but is completely deserted, the director Lamine Ammar-Khodja gives the microphone to passers-by to talk about cinema. What do films have to show in order to get people to go see them? Through this survey and these spontaneous conversations, the director lets the people on the street and a little-known Algerian reality do the talking.
Biography
film director
Lamine Ammar-Khodja
Lamine Ammar-Khodja (Bab Ezzouar, Algeria, 1983) moved to Paris in 2013 to study electronics and computer science, after which he went to Grenoble to study film and documentary filmmaking. After making the shorts How to Reframe an Outlaw by Pulling at a Thread, ’56 South and Algiers Less Than Zero, he debuted in feature films in 2012 with the documentary Ask Your Shadow, which was selected for FID Marseille and received the First Film Prize.
FILMOGRAFIA
Comment recadrer un hors-la-loi en tirant sur un fil (cm, 2010), ’56 SUD (cm, 2010), Alger moins que zéro (cm, 2010), Demande à ton ombre (doc., 2012), Chroniques (2013), Bla cinima (Straight from the Street, doc., 2014).
Declaration
film director
“The cinema was a doorway to talk about everyday life. My idea was bringing cinema to the streets, transforming normal people passing by into actors. Moreover, it’s in the streets that you meet Algiers’ real life, and cinema for me is life. I often like to quote Henry Miller: ‘What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.’”
Cast
& Credits
regia, suono/director, sound
Lamine Ammar-Khodja
fotografia/cinematography
Sylvie Petit
montaggio/film editing
Francine Lemaître
produttori/producers
Marie-Odile Gazin, Julie Nguyen Van Qui
produzione/production
The Kingdom
contatti/contacts
The Kingdom
distrib.thekingdom@gmail.com
Lamine Ammar-Khodja
fotografia/cinematography
Sylvie Petit
montaggio/film editing
Francine Lemaître
produttori/producers
Marie-Odile Gazin, Julie Nguyen Van Qui
produzione/production
The Kingdom
contatti/contacts
The Kingdom
distrib.thekingdom@gmail.com
