The Blond Boy From The Casbah
Passionate filmmaker Antoine travels to his birthplace, Algiers, with his young son to present his new film: an account of his childhood in Algeria during the country’s civil war in the 1960s. As he wanders through the city, the filmmaker immerses us in the moments of happiness, laughter, and tears of his youth – spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family. Growing up in the final moments of Algeria’s pre-independence period, the young Antoine discovers his profound fascination with cinema and starts to understand who he truly is.
WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: A delightful film that flips between the “now” of the filmmaker revisiting the sites of his youth with his son, and the “then” of back in his youth as the world literally and figuratively explodes around him.
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Preceded by the short film The Soldier on Smithdown Road. 2023 | 13 mins. | UK | English, Yiddish
Showtimes
In-Person
7:30 PM — Evans Performance Center at Shalom Austin
Virtual
Nov 15, 12:00 PM — Nov 24, 11:59 PM Central Standard Time (CST)
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DETAILS
YEAR: 2023
RUN TIME: 128 Minutes
LANGUAGE(S): French, Arabic
SUBTITLES: English subtitles
PREMIERE STATUS: Southwest premiere
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CREDITS
DIRECTOR(S):Alexandre Arcady
SCREENWRITER(S):Alexandre Arcady
PRODUCER(S):Diane Kurys
CAST:Léo Campion, Marie Gillain, Pascal Elbé, Jean Benguigui, Christian Berkel, Michel Boujenah
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