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The Arab

International Perspective

The Arab

L’Arabe

direction Malek Bensmaïl

Algeria, France, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Belgium 2026 Fiction Cor, P&B 106 min

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Haroun is an old bachelor who has been living in Oran, Algeria, for several years. A retired civil servant, he leads a reclusive life until he meets Kamel in a bar, a journalist to whom he tells an incredible story dating back to the summer of 1942: he claims to be the brother of the “Arab” killed in one of the most famous novels of the 20th century: Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”. An “Arab” whose erased name was “Moussa”... Based on Kamel Daoud’s novel, published in English as “The Meursault Investigation”. Presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

algeria france switzerland saudi arabia belgium international film festivals politics identity history memory from word to image crime & violence

technical sheet

direction

Malek Bensmaïl

screenplay

Jacques Fieschi, Malek Bensmaïl

cinematography

Gilles Porte, Lionel Jan Kerguistel

editing

Matthieu Bretaud, Julia Grégory

sound

Carlos Ibanez Diaz, Moncef Taleb, Lancelot Hervé Mignucci, Maxence Ciekawy

music

Nicolas Rabæus

casting

Fouad Trifi, François Guignard

production design

Saad Ould Bachir, Lamine Mohamed Amrani

cast

Ahmed Benaïssa, Hiam Abbass, Dali Benssalah, Nabil Asli, Brahim Derris, Raphaël Thiéry

production

Hachemi Zertal, Fred Prémel

co-production

Villi Hermann, Michela Pini, Alessandro Marcionni, Anne-Laure Guégan, Géraldine Sprimont

produced by

Hikayet Films, Tita B Productions

co-produced by

CADC – Centre Algérien de Développement du Cinéma, Imagofilm Lugano, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera/SRG SSR, Red Sea Film Festival Foundation

world sales

Hikayet Films

galeria

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