It follows a handful of characters over a 24-hour period in the capital of Algiers. Set back in 2008, when the country’s wounds from the civil war were still healing, the film offers portrait of a place and people caught in perp...
Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager and dexterous thief, lives in a slum in the suburbs of the Algerian town of Mostaganem with his grumbling mother and elder sister Sabrina, who has been forced into prostitution. He leaves the...
Bab el-Oued, a working-class neighborhood of Algiers. On one side the bay, on the other the city. While time is marked by the muezzin’s call to prayer, five stories intersect, even if only for a moment, on the same number of ter...