La maison jaune - Algérie (2007)


Couleur – 84’
Direction: Amor Hakkar
Screenplay : Amor Hakkar
Director of Photography: Nicolas Roche
Sound: Kamel Mekesseur
Music: Faycal Sahli, Joseph Macera,
Basile N’Tsika, Aurélien Dudon
Editing: Lyonnel Garnier
Cast:Aya Hamdi, Tounes Aït-Ali
Production: SARAH FILMS

Synopsis

Alya, a 12 year-old girl, is digging an arid patch of land. A police car approaches. The police inform her that her older brother, who was fulfilling his military service, has died in an accident. Without waiting, Mouloud, their father, braves all obstacles to recover his son’s body. Their mother, Fatima, plunges into deep sadness. The obstinate man knows that to give up, in the Aures, is to die a little. Will this deeply affected father, with the help of his daughter, Alya, be able to bring a smile back on his wife and children’s face?

The director:

Amor Hakkar, born in 1958 in the Aures, went to France at a young age. He directed fiction, «Sale temps pour un voyou» (1992), documentaries «Apprends-moi à compter jusqu’à l’infini» (1990) and short films, «Timgad, la vie au coeur des Aures» (2002).
He also wrote a novel, «La cité des fausse-notes».


Contact :

Céline Brotons / SARAH FILMS Chemin de Palente,
25000 Besançon / France
Tél : (+ 33) 3 81 47 22 72 - Fax : (+ 33) 3 81 80 27 80
contact@sarah-films.fr - www.lamaisonjaune-lefilm.com