A photographer's stolen portraits become a ghost map of a war he never witnessed.
The Director Mohammed Soudani comes back to Algeria after 30 years with the photographer Michael von Graffenried to visit the Algerians he had photographed between 1991 and 2000 without them knowing it.
Direction
Soudani turns his own return into a reckoning with complicity.
Cinematography
Graffenried's stolen frames—candid, alive, now spectral.
Director
Mohammed Soudani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Algerian Civil War ('La Décennie Noire') killed 150,000–200,000; this film is one of the few documentary attempts by a diasporic Algerian filmmaker to address it.
Graffenried's method—shooting from the waist with a wide-angle lens—meant subjects never knew they were being captured, raising questions that the film never fully resolves.
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