I was four years old when my father, a journalist, was murdered by terrorists. Through denial and humour, we rebuild ourselves.
The film about my family concerns an entire people still alive today who, because of the code of silence surrounding the dark decade that decimated Algeria from the late 1980s to 2002, have each carried the tragic history of this “civil war” alone. Two sensitive dimensions, drama and humour, face each other to maintain a vital balance throughout this journey. Mama also used "forgetting" to allow us to pretend to live a “normal” life. It worked, perhaps a little too well for me.
