Algeria, Year Zero

  • Algeria, Year Zero

  • I Am Eight Years Old

  • Algeria in Flames

  • Sunday, Feb 19, 2023

    5 PM (68 mins)
    BAMPFA

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Algeria, Year Zero

(Algérie, année zero)

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Jean-Pierre Sergent
France, 1962

Made six months after the end of the war, this groundbreaking documentary presents a newly independent Algeria facing the immense task of social and economic reconstruction in its urban and rural areas. The film was initially censored in both France and Algeria. 

FILM DETAILS

Cinematographer

  • Bruno Muel

Language

  • French
  • Arabic
  • with English electronic titling

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 35 mins

Source

  • Tamasa Distribution

Preceded By

I Am Eight Years Old
(J’ai huit ans)

Yann Le Masson, Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff, France, 1962

Algerian children who were refugees in Tunisian camps present the tragic events they experienced through artwork they have made. Long banned in France, the film was mostly screened clandestinely.

FILM DETAILS

Language

  • French
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • B&W/Color
  • DCP
  • 10 mins
source
  • La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
permission
  • Yuna Le Masson

Followed By

Algeria in Flames
(Algérie en flammes)

René Vautier, France, 1958

These images of war, recorded in 1956–57 in the Aurès region, are shown from the perspective of the National Liberation Army (ALN) and meant to foster dialogue toward peace. A landmark of Algerian national cinema, the film was immediately circulated all over the world, except in France, where it was screened for the first time in 1968, in the occupied Sorbonne.

FILM DETAILS

Language

  • French
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • Color
  • Digital
  • 23 mins
source
  • Les Mutins
permission
  • Moïra Vautier-Chappedelaine