Karim Moussaoui

Addicted to mechanics, Amine is also addicted to roaring engines. In spite of severe past accidents, he takes to the road – for lack of a racetrack – and gives himself up to a curious camera that conveys with power and grace the unquenchable quest for strong sensations and images, thereby sketching the portrait of a promising and determined young filmmaker.

Director Karim Moussaoui wonders what would come close to be called Opera in his home country, Algeria. Together with his crew, he travels to the desert where he was told some women sung the Taguerabt (chant of the Gourara) in caves.

From an Iranian village to the Palais Garnier, from a hospital in Villejuif in the South of Algeria, voices are raised ... Four filmmakers, Julie Deliquet, Karim Moussaoui, Sergei Loznitsa and Jafar Panahi film songs of women and evoke in their own way, the world in which each of them lives.

Na Argélia, três histórias distintas se cruzam. Mourad, um corretor imobiliário, enfrenta problemas de família. Djalil é um motorista que deve levar uma mulher para se casar com o noivo que mal conhece. Por fim, o neurologista Dahman é envolvido em um rumor sobre um possível estupro coletivo.

Na Argélia, três histórias distintas se cruzam. Mourad, um corretor imobiliário, enfrenta problemas de família. Djalil é um motorista que deve levar uma mulher para se casar com o noivo que mal conhece. Por fim, o neurologista Dahman é envolvido em um rumor sobre um possível estupro coletivo.

In an estate in the South of Algiers, in the middle of the nineties. Djaber and Yamina are neighbours, but do not know each other. For one as for the other, it is so difficult to meet between girls and boys, that they almost stopped dreaming about it. In a few days nevertheless, what was up to then that deaf and distant violence explodes in front of them, modifying for ever their fates.

In an estate in the South of Algiers, in the middle of the nineties. Djaber and Yamina are neighbours, but do not know each other. For one as for the other, it is so difficult to meet between girls and boys, that they almost stopped dreaming about it. In a few days nevertheless, what was up to then that deaf and distant violence explodes in front of them, modifying for ever their fates.