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Chakib Taleb-Bendiab

Algeria | V.O. Arabic | ST French | 2024 | 92 min | DCP | color | Fiction | Canadian Premiere

The kidnapping of a little girl creates tension and suspicion in Algiers. Only Dounia, a brilliant psychiatrist, and Sami, the inspector in charge, can unearth the demons of the past.

Distribution
Director Chakib Taleb-Bendiab
Cinematographer Ikbal Arafa
Screenplay Chakib Taleb-Bendiab
Cast Nabil Asli, Meriem Medjkane
Production Temple Production
Distribution K-Films Amérique

Biographie

Chakib Taleb-Bendiab

Chakib Taleb-Bendiab is a French-Algerian screenwriter, filmmaker and composer. He has worked on numerous feature films and is one of the screenwriters of the British spy series Go Dark. He has won several awards at international festivals for his screenplays and short films Sang Froid (2013) and Black Spirit (2018), a legend of African Samurai in the Sahara, while awaiting his first feature film in Algiers...