Algeria is, without a doubt, one of the most complex societies of the modern world.
He has devoted his entire filmmaking career, spanning over forty years, to a lucid portra.
To date, no filmmaker has depicted this Algerian complexity better than Merzak Allouache.
This country is known for its ancient history, its multilingualism, its multiethnic social fabric, its glorious War of Independence, its leadership for Third World movements in the 1960s, and its tragic "Dark Decade" of the 1990s.
Algeria is, without a doubt, one of the most complex societies of the modern world