Shorts
A Glimpse to the Sky
This is a love story between a boy and a girl. Their parents don”t know about it until the girl’s uncle discovers it. Facing him, she denies the accusation. Both are forced to swear on the Koran, after which she’s scared that God will blind her. Only by praying she can be saved from punishment.
Agents of Change (Free Event)
This is an ICE project developed at SWITCH for TAFE OUTREACH held at the Cow Shed – Wentworthville Youth Service in 2005.
Cousins
Driss is to spend a month in Algiers to meet up with his parents, brother, cousins, as well as with his native country, that has deeply changed ever since he left. He meets Nedjma, a distant cousin, who is a bit conservative and shy. He arouses her desire for independence and freedom, yet her hand is promised to Amran.
Displaced
The film visualises the concept of displacement of the Palestinian people and how Palestine lives in their memory and in their daily life in their “exile”.
Fatima’s Secret
Film based on true events in Algiers, 1998: Fatima is 65 years old and lives in a popular area ravaged by domestic violence and terrorism. She lives alone, without any links to her neighorhood. But behind the obvious indifference hides a terrible secret.
Globalisation
A man, a TV… and the devil between them.
Jean-Fares
The day his son was born, Driss was overwhelmed and needed to share his happiness with someone… He calls his parents in Algeria and his parents-in-law in Versailles. They both asked the same questions: “”What will you name your son?