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Checks & Balances

Checks & Balances Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 27/01/2016
  • Duration : 1 hour 36 minutes
  • Director: Malek Bensmaïl
  • Production: Hikayet Films
  • Country: France, Algeria
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Overview:

Accommodated since Algeria's Bloody Decade of the 1990’s in the "House of the Press", the journalists of the famous daily newspaper El Watan await the completion of their new offices, a symbol of their independence. My camera is embedded in their newsroom as they follow the events of this new Algerian spring... President Bouteflika has set his sights on a 4th term. Beyond what we call the Arab revolutions and other mediatized terms, I wanted this film to serve as a memorial to the women and men, young and less young, who battle daily to safeguard the freedom of information in a politically and socially fossilized country.

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