At four, my journalist father was murdered by terrorists. At 32, I finally confront the images of his death. Revisiting a family and national tragedy from Algeria’s years of terrorism, 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.
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.
