Elles

One of the closest filmmakers to the Algerian FLN in its early years and the liberation movement of the country, born in Setif (Algeria, 1940-Tous (France), 2009). He worked as a war reporter on the border, with training in Yugoslavian television in Belgrade, and filmmaking studies in Poland (Loz) and France (Paris). Author of numerous short films about revolutionary society, most notably the feature film Zone interdite-Al-faiza (1974), in which he reconstructs what Argelia is through the use of archive footage. His medium-length film Elles (1966) captures the hopes of a group of young women following Algerian independence. Three decades later, he shot Algeria, 30 years later (1995), in which he finds these women long afterwards, when disenchantment towards the revolution becomes an inevitability. Lallem would go on to be one of the soundest critics of the country's Islamization.