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143 rue du désert (Arabic, French, English with French subtitles)
Location
Main screening room
Date
July 1st, 2024
Duration
104 min
Cycle
Contemporary cinema

The films gathered in this series were all directed and produced during the last ten years. They sometimes show the state of the world. These singular works also explore new poetic registers, methods of filming that surprise by their capacity to render the air we breathe, with a sense of metaphor, provocation or play.

Winner of the Best International Documentary Film Award, 2019 Torino Film Festival

143 Sahara Street
Directed by
Hassen Ferhani
Language
Arabic, French, English with French subtitles
Origins
Algeria, France, Qatar
Year
2019
Duration
104 min
Genre
Documentary
Format
Digital
Synopsis

In the heart of the Algerian desert, Malika welcomes lorry-drivers and wanderers to her roadside teahouse for a cigarette or a cup of coffee and gives house-room to dreams. Portrait of a woman who only offers omelettes, with or without tomatoes, but her establishment is a place of passage and rest for the few travelers of the desert.

143 Sahara Street
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Hassen Ferhani

Hassen Ferhani is an Algerian director. After studying in Algiers, he co-hosted a film club there from 2003 to 2008. He won the Best Emerging Director award for his film 143 Sahara Street at Locarno in 2019. He is part of a new generation of Algerian filmmakers, alongside Karim Moussaoui, Yasmine Chouikh, and Lamine Ammar-Khodja.

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