Roma wa la n'touma
Rome Rather Than You
Tariq Teguia – Algerien/F/D 2006 – 111 min.
Sc: Tariq Teguia – C: Hacène Ait Kaci , Nasser Medjkane – E: Andrée Davanture , Rodolphe Molla – P: Helge Albers, Cati Couteau, Tariq Teguia – With Samira Kaddour, Rachid Amrani, Ahmed Benaissa
35mm – Arabic
Kamel dreams of returning to Italy, where he once baked pizzas, this time leaving Algeria for good and bringing his girlfriend Zina with him. They will need documents, so the couple embarks on a journey from the urban center to deserted suburbs in search of the immigrant smuggler who can help them. The couple has growm up among the violence that has plagued the country for more than a decade and taken more than 100,000 lives. Ongoing strife between government forces and Islamist opposition is so much a part of day-to-day-living that Kamel and Zina ignore the danger they face on the road. – Viennale V'07 Feature Films
Tariq Teguia was born in Algiers in 1966. He studied in Paris, where he worked as a freelance photographer. He made his first short film,KECH’MOUVE- MENT, together with Yacine Teguia, in 1992.