Completed - FRENCH - Comedy, Social issues - 17 minutes
Burning is a tangled story of Algerians today who are struggling, much like this frozen fish that passes from hand to hand from the Kabyle mountains to the fishing coast and then ends up by coming back to life and dive in the endless waters of possibilities.
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Slimane BOUNIA Writer(s) : Slimane BOUNIA, Sylvain BOLLE-REDAT Cast : Rachid HADID , Sabrina OUAZANI, Salim KECHIOUCHE Producer(s) : Jérémie CHEVRET (Plus de prod)
It is early morning, back from a fishing trip. Lounes comes along with a jerrican of petrol in his hand. Right there, in the middle of the shacks, he’s going to try to set himself alight. Up in the surrounding mountains, Rachid, a clandestine cab driver, is taking Ounissa, a young village girl to Tizi-Ouzou-sur-mer, along with a huge frozen fish. Quick! It’s getting hot already this morning, the countdown’s begun. In the evening, as our fish has reached the shore at last… Miracle! It’s coming back to life! being out of the water, it struggles as best as it can, the same way Rachid and Ounissa both do. Right there in Lounes’ arms, the fish keeps on fighting, just like Lounes himself who, that same morning, had unsuccessfully tried to set himself on fire but who would eventually manages tonight to “take a dive ».
Country(ies) : FRANCE
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