He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision: he will no longer talk about cinema. Boudjemâa, our living memory. That of Algerian cinema, African cinema, Arab cinema, cinema in short. The Algiers Cinematheque. The “masterpiece of Algerian cinema”. Boudjemâa Karèche directed it for 34 years. So why does Boudjemâa no longer talk about cinema? The answer lies next to the circumstances which caused his ouster from the Cinémathèque. Boudjemâa was silent. The time has come for him to let the word think for itself.

Boudjemâa et la Maison Cinéma

Who remembers Mohamed Zinet? For the cinephiles, he is only the actor who embodied "the Arab" in the French films of the 1970's, for filmmakers such as Yves Boisset or Claude Lelouch. In Algeria, he is another person... Child of the Casbah, he is the brilliant director of "Tahia ya didou".