Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
  • Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole (A)
  • Only Good Things
  • Transaction
  • Lioness
  • On the Streets (of Lagos)
  • Then & Now
  • Christmas Reunion (A)
  • Songs Inside
  • We Exist
  • Side Effects
  • Loulou
  • Murderbot
  • VIH: La causa justa
  • Teacher's Pet
  • More Perfect Union (A)
  • Next to Us
  • I Was Born This Way
  • Hal & Harper
  • State of Firsts
  • Outerlands
  • Secret Lives of My Three Men (The)
  • Latter-Day Glory: The Aftermath of Growing Up Queer in the LDS Church
  • Monk in Pieces
  • Flamingo Camp
  • Lurker
  • Wicked: For Good
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
  • Tomorrow's Too Late
  • War Between the Land and the Sea (The)
  • Tom Daley: 1.6 Seconds
  • Black Phone 2
  • Stockholm Pride
  • Inside the Dream Mugler
  • Mums
  • This Is Me
  • Room to Move
  • Innocents (The)
  • Vanilla

Alger la Blanche

Country: France, Language: French, 28 mins

  • Director: Cyril Collard
  • Writer: Cyril Collard; Jean-Marie Guillaume
  • Producer: Cyril Collard; Janine Collard

CGiii Comment

It's intense. It's erratic and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

One minute he's alive, the next...he's dead. What follows is just one incomprehensible argument.

Collard's self-indulgence permeates his work...he might have been driving the bus...but, he has no passengers.


No trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

Farid is caught in the gears of the policial system. After his death, the contained pain and violence eventually explode and Jean leaves for Algeria by himself.

Cast & Characters

Frederic Deban as Jean;
Ali Baouche as Farid;
Farida Chrouki as Nahed;
Aissa Djabri as Hassan;
Mohamed Zran as Mohammed;
Sahalia Baouche as La mere;
Tawfik El Sherbini as L'oncle;
Larbi Bekka as Le jeune cousin;
Henri Lopez-Terres as Le juge;
Rene-Marc Bini as Un policier;
Michel Delpech as Un policier;
Gregoire Colart as Un policier;
Dominique Testud as Un policier;
Fernand Midavaine as Un policier;
Frederic Delpech as Un policier