Join us for a discussion with director Karim Moussaoui!

Karim Moussaoui’s debut tells three loosely related stories set in contemporary Algeria. The past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment, and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings.

Through his carefully controlled vision, Moussaoui recalls the understated rigor of masters such as Krzysztof Kieslowski and Abbas Kiarostami, and allows himself exhilarating flights of fancy, such as an impromptu song and dance number on the side of a desert highway. Moussaoui shows the human soul of a contemporary Arab society.

This film is part of Young French Cinema, a program of UniFrance and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.