Ahmed Lallem

  • Ahmed Lallem – Elles AKA The Women (1966)

    1961-1970African CinemaAhmed LallemAlgeriaDocumentaryShort Film

    This is another one from the Sarah Maldoror ouvre. She assisted director Lallem for this short documentary, and the two of them assistant-directed William Klein’s Festival Panafricain d’Alger (1970).

    Description from DocumentaMadrid:
    Maldoror works alongside Ahmed Lallem as his assistant director to show young Algerian teenage girls talking about their hopes and desires for the nascent country. The film is an important counterpart to The Battle of Algiers, a film on which Sarah Maldoror and Gillo Pontecorvo would also work together.Read More »

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