Révolution Zendj
( Thwara Zanj )

Tariq Téguia
2013 - 137 min - HD - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - Algérie, France, Liban, Qatar

FICTION
Ibn Battuta works as a journalist for an Algerian daily newspaper. While covering community clashes in the south of the country, he finds himself incidentally picking up the trail of long forgotten uprisings against the Abbasid Caliphate, back in eighth and ninth century Iraq. For the purpose of his investigation, he goes to Beirut, a city that used to embody the hopes and struggles of the Arab world and to the Mesopotamian Marshes, in southern Irak…

Conflit (désaccord) | Histoire | Journalisme | Voyage | Iraq | Liban


Author-Director : Tariq Téguia
Author : Yacine Téguia
Photography : Nasser Medjkane, Hacene Ait Kaci
Sound : Abdelkader Affak, Kamel Fergani
Editing : Rodolphe Molla
Delegate Producer : Neffa Films
Co-producer : Le Fresnoy (Studio national des Arts contemporains)
Co-producer : Mirroirs
Co-producer : Zendj, Captures Production

Distribution


Distributor : Neffa Films
Distributor : Eclectic

Distinctions

2014 - Rencontres Cinéma de Manosque : Du Réel à l'Imaginaire, Manosque (France) : Sélection
2014 - FNC - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal (Canada) : Séance spéciale
2014 - Les Écrans Documentaires, Arcueil (France) : Sélection
2013 - EntreVues - Festival du film de Belfort, Belfort (France) : Grand Prix
2013 - Festival international du film de Rome, Rome (Italie) : Sélection