Production year**: 2019 Director: Hassen Ferhani** Film duration: 1h40
In the middle of the Algerian desert, in her relay, a woman writes her History. It welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams… Her name is Malika. "Yesterday, a slaughterhouse opened a world in the heart of Algiers (Dans ma tête un rond-point, 2015). Today, the owner of a small shop in the middle of the Sahara offers a haven of peace, if not an oasis, as the sand fades to the colors of this documentary western. Behind closed doors, an observation post or a theatre stage: Ferhani’s talent is clearly fertile and never seems to be satisfied, always ready, on the contrary, to welcome the unexpected." (Antoine Thirion - Locarno Festival)

Screening followed by an exchange with
> Camille Leprince Researcher at the Centre national des arts plastiques and co-curator of the exhibition Les Sentinelles presented at IMA-Tourcoing until 12 February 2023, Camille Leprince has been developing since 2011, artistic and cultural projects in the wake of the Arab uprisings. His thesis started in 2020 focuses on a new relationship to the world and the feeling of an era in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings of 2011, through the poetic and political scope of the visual practices of the Maghreb and Mashreq and in particular from a focus on documentary cinema in Syria.
> Pascale Cassagnau Pascale Cassagnau is a doctor of art history and art critic, Inspector General of Creation, responsible for audiovisual collections and new media at the Centre national des arts plastiques (Ministry of Culture). She is co-curator of the exhibition Les Sentinelles presented at IMA-Tourcoing ________________________
Hassen Ferhani Hassen Ferhani was born in Algiers in 1986. From 2003 to 2008, he co-hosted a film club in Algiers. In 2006, he directed his first film, a short fiction film, Les Baies d'Alger, selected in official competition by several international festivals. In 2008, he participated in the summer training of La Fémis and produced a short documentary, Le Vol du 140. In 2010, he co-directed a documentary film: Afric Hotel. Tarzan, Don Quixote et Nous, realized in 2013 was presented at Visions du Réel and FID Marseille as well as in several international festivals. In my mind a roundabout is his first feature film, several times awarded, was released in February 2016. In 2019, the jury of the Locarno International Film Festival awards the Leopard for Best Emerging Director at 143 rue du désert in the Filmmaker of the Present Competition. (Source: ACID and Tënk)