Le Gone du Chaâba (1998) Repost

Avec Bouzid Negnoug, Nabil Ghalem, Galamelah Laggra, Kenza Bouanika, François Morel, Manuela Gourary, Mohamed Fellag, Amina Medjoubi

Dans les années soixante, une vingtaine de familles ont fui leur village algérien d'El-Ouricia, poussées par la pauvreté ou la guerre. Refugiées au Chaaba, un bidonville français, elles se confrontent au dur apprentissage de l'intégration. Au travers de différents destins qui, chacun à sa manière, retracent l'itinéraire complexe de cette immigration, cette histoire s'attache au parcours d'Omar, neuf ans, déchire entre ce petit morceau d'Algérie et la France.

"Le Gone du Chaâba" (The Kid of the Chaaba) translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown Sétif, Algeria, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. A version was filmed in 1998 by Christophe Ruggia, and received a César nomination for Best Debut.