Guns of Freedom (1961)

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges Derocles’s company Les Studios Africa, for whom he would shortly make his breakthrough feature The Olive Trees of Justice.

At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold rings to sell them and thus buy boats.

이상주의자인 젊은 장교 테리언은 프랑스로부터 독립하려는 알제리를 점령하기 위한 알제리 내전에 참가하라는 명령을 받는다. 자대에 배치된 테리언은 고참하사인 도낙의 조언과 도움으로 점점 전쟁에 적응해 나간다. 하지만 전쟁의 참혹함과 참상을 지켜보면서 테리언은 도덕적 가치에 혼란을 느끼고, 점점 이상과 현실의 괴리감 속에서 정체성의 혼돈을 겪으며 방황한다. 한편 테리언의 인간적인 면에 매료된 알제리 소년은 프랑스군이 점령군임에도 불구하고 알제리 반군에 대항하여 테리언을 도와 싸운다. 하지만 시간이 지나면서 광기 어린 전쟁머신으로 변해가는 테리언과 계속되는 고문 행위에 환멸을 느낀 소년은 테리언을 떠나 알제리 반군에 투항하는데…

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert Camus had an extraordinary destiny. Child of the poor districts of Algiers, tuberculosis patient, orphan of father, son of an illiterate and deaf mother, he tore himself away from his condition thanks to his teacher. French from Algeria, he never ceased to fight for equality with the Arabs and the Kabyle, while fearing the Independence of the FLN. Founded on restored and colorized archives, and first-hand accounts, this documentary attempts to paint the portrait of Camus as he was.

이야기를 나누고, 생활하고, 사색하는 모습을 통해 5대륙 10개국 주인공들의 생각, 아이디어, 경험, 그리고 꿈이 펼쳐진다. 이 집합적 이야기들은 아르헨티나 작가 호르헤 루이스 보르헤스가 “상상할 수 없는 우주”라 부른 것과의 관련 속에서 퍼즐의 조각들로서 기능한다.

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Using his personal background, Brazilian Karim Aïnous invites the audience to follow/discover an incredible journey through space and time, with an original and usually unknown prism/aspect : The strong bound between Algeria and Brazil, two countries with political and revolutionary strikes that mould their evolution.

The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern Algeria. The film also tells about different stages of the resistance, especially about one of the uprisings of the Algerian people, namely "the battle of the sons of Sidi Sheikh Bouamama", in which French General Leuti was appointed to try to suppress and end this resistance.