Casa Árabe is screening the documentary Their Algeria, by Lina Soualem, this evening at 7:30 pm. Screening in the original version with Spanish subtitles (VOSE).
After 62 years of living together, Lina’s grandparents, Aïcha and Mabrouk, have decided to separate. Together they came from Algeria to Thiers, a small medieval town in the centre of France, more than 60 years ago. Side by side, they have lived this chaotic immigrant life. For Lina, their separation is an opportunity to question their long journey of exile and their silence. In the words of the director, Lina Soualem, “through the intimate portrait of Aïcha and Mabrouk, the film sheds light on the distances we carry within and perpetuate with our loved ones, while revealing and documenting the indelible suffering of a colonised mind”.
