Arakan News Agency
ANNABA-The documentary “The Venerable W” by director Barbet Schroeder on violence against the Muslim minority in Burma (Rohingya) was screened Saturday in Annaba, for the first time in an Arab country in the presence of the director in the framework of the Annaba of the Mediterranean film.
Franco-Swiss production of the year 2017, the film screened out of competition deals with the spiral of violence and persecution suffered by the Muslims of Burma.
Lasting 107 minutes, the French director deciphers the experience of the Muslims of Burma and reports the scenes of torture, mutilation and genocide against this minority.
The venerable W refers to the Buddhist monk, Ashin Wirathu, the man with hate speech against Muslims and whose Islamophobia has turned into violence and religious and ethnic persecution.
The films programmed at the Azzedine Medjoubi Regional Theater in competition or special sessions attract a large audience who had to appreciate, on the fourth day of the FAFM, the film ” A cambria ” by the Italian director Jonas Carpignano. Produced in 2017, the film deals with delinquency in Italian society through the portrait of a young teenager called to assume his responsibilities towards his family.
The fans of the 7th art also followed with great interest the film ‘Waiting Swallows’ of Algerian director Karim Moussaoui in the presence of one of the stars of this film, Hacene Kecheche.
Algerian films programmed at the FAFM Saturday have, among other things, dedicated a special evening dedicated to the director Ahmed Rachedi, ” The seven ramparts of the citadel ”.
