Riots, Revolutions and Reminiscences: Spotlight on the Arab World
Fidai
Directors
Damien Ounouri
Producers
Alexandre Singer
Jia Zhang Ke
Mathieu Mullier-Griffiths
Cinematographers
Matthieu Laclau
Editors
Mary Stephen
Matthieu Laclau
Sound
Li Dan-Feng
Contact
Kafard Films
Sarah RENDE
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2012
Algeria
83 min
Color
In Arabic, ‘fidaï’ means ‘one who dedicates his life to a cause’. This documentary looks at one such selfless fighter, whose actions during the Algerian War helped throw off more than a century of colonial rule. Now 70, director Damien Ounouri’s great-uncle El Hadi was a warrior in Algeria’s National Liberation Front. Here, he remembers some of his own acts of armed resistance during the bloody revolution, bringing a humble and human dimension to events that contributed to this most important and inspiring war of decolonisation
Born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Damien Ounouri is a graduate of the Sorbonne and currently conducts cinema workshops for children and teenagers in both France and Algeria. He has made the short documentaries ‘Changping Sonata’ (2007) and ‘Away From Nedjma’ (2009), and the feature-length documentary ‘Xiao Jia Going Home’ (2008), about Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, which screened at a dozen festivals.
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