I carve smiles into mountains' wounds

Original title: Je taille des sourires dans les plaies des montagnes

Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborhoods, stays at friends' houses and often leaves the city to meet the nearby montain in Kabylia, his alter-ego. In this environment, marked by war and terrorism, his resistance continues, mobile and ascending. Algerian hardcore-punk musician, Achour once screamed his anger against the country's regime and sang "Anarchytecture". But the movement died down, friends went their separate ways. His Facebook wall became his notebook, his window open to the world. It represents a scream aimed towards the echo of the mountains, between virtual wall, infinite facades of large complexes and the strata of mineral cliffs. A scream comes back at us.

Documentary

Je taille des sourires dans les plaies des montagnes

Similar Films

  • Tränen der Sextner Dolomiten
  • Mountain
  • Anatomie d'une Première
  • Expédition Hoggar 79
  • Algerien par accident
  • Home Again
  • Figure 3
  • La Singla
  • Rendez-Vous Nomade, Le Chemin d'Odette Et Jean-Louis Bernezat
  • Depth Charge
  • Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara
  • Het Pad van Sien
  • Over Alaska
  • CHoisir à vingt ans
  • Lorena, la de pies ligeros
  • Les Mains Libres
  • Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
  • Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l’hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956

NextFilm 2025