In the furnace of Algiers, the camera follows and accompanies Ibrahim, Adam, and Ismael, originally from sub-Saharan Africa, in an irregular situation who live in this hotel with the predestined name. They live from odd jobs. One is an elevator operator in a building, the second is a shoemaker and the third works in the construction sector. The other side of immigration from sub-Saharan Africa. Behind the statistics hide people, bodies waiting to be able to start another life elsewhere. A hotel thus becomes a transit point in which stories and hopes mingle, a place which seems suspended in time and space. A static journey waiting for another to begin.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Fugues de Barbarie
Keywords
- algeria
- north africa
- migrations
- ethnology
- djazair
- african diaspora
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Hassen Ferhani · Director
Nabil Djedouani · Director
Myriam Aycaguer · Editor
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