Le Petit Blond de la Casbah

Alexandre Arcady, who dealt with anti-Semitic terror in France in his 24 DAYS film in 2014, fictionally looks back on his childhood in Algeria in his new work. A director travels to Algiers with his son to show his film about his own youth. It is a threefold search for origins, roots and a supposedly lost "ideal world" - the search of the director, the protagonists in the feature film and his son. At the same time, it is a story from the perspective of a child who has to learn that no place is safe anymore and that no friendship can help overcome anti-Semitic conceit. And it is a film about the personal in the Algerian conflict and about the role of feature films in the lives of adolescents. (Frank Stern)