Algérie Presse Service (APS) - Feb. 17, 2013
Close to fifteen Algerian movies will be shown next March 7-12 at New York City's Algerian Film Festival.

A partnership involving New York University's Department of African American Studies, the African Film Festival of New York, and the Embassy of Algeria in Washington, the Algerian Film festival is lining up a program representing over 50 years' worth of Algerian film production.

According to organizing officials, the festival will open with a conference on the theme of "Algeria: 55 years of film production", which will be moderated by Algerian film critic and scholar Ahmed Bedjaoui and NYU's Malian cultural critic Manthia Diawara.

Opening day of the festival will feature "Le Hublot" (window), a short by Anis Djaâd, and "Chronique des années de braise" (Chronicle of the years of ember), famed movie directed by Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina and winner of the Golden Palm at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.

"Birth of the Republic," a documentary on the Algerian state in 1963 dug out of Russian archives will be shown along with "Africa is back", directed by Chergui Kharroubi and Salem Brahimi and showing highlights from the second Algiers Pan-African Cultural Festival held in 2009.

Young Algerian filmmakers will also represented at the festival through "Al Djazira" (The island), a movie directed by Amine Sidi Boumediène and winner of Best Movie in the Arab World at the Abu Dhabi Film festival, and Abdennour Zahzah's "Garagouz" (The clown), which won the Golden Fowl at the 22nd Fespaco festival.

Several fiction movies will also be shown at the New York Algerian Film Festival, including "Hors la loi" by Rachid Bouchareb, "Mascarades" by Lyes Salem, "Automne Octobre à Alger" by Malik Lakhdar Hamina, as well as "Délice Paloma" by Nadir Moknèche.

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