In celebration of the release of its newly restored version, and marking fifty years since its historic Palme d’Or win at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, Darat al Funun will be screening the restored version of Chronicle of the Years of Fire by the late Algerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. 

The film offers a lens onto the Algerian people’s struggle for freedom. Tracing the long arc of resistance to French colonial rule, it weaves together personal narratives and historical events in an epic account of the country’s path to independence.

The film is in Algerian Arabic with English subtitles.

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This event is part of the "Cinematic Transformations from the Global South" program

Projects at the Lab: The Cinematheque | All That We Witness presents in February, March, and April, a series of events that engage the concept of cinema and its role through film practices and productions from the Global South. The program seeks to revisit the meanings and forms of cinematic expression from a perspective that moves beyond the dominant global system shaping film production and circulation, and the formal and thematic frameworks they often impose. The program includes talks and study sessions, alongside a film screening program and collective discussions.