1. Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is an Algerian film director and screenwriter.
13 Facts About Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is best known for his 1975 film Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival and became the first Arab and African film to win the award.
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Arabic cinema.
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina first became interested in the world of cinema at the Lycee Carnot in Cannes, France.
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In 1961, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina collaborated with Chanderli in the movie Yasmina, which tells the story of a refugee girl who must flee her village following its destruction.
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina collaborated again with Chanderli in the 1962 The people's voice and 1961 The guns of freedom.
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina's other son, Tariq Lakhdar-Hamina, is a film producer.
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina's following film, Hassan Terro, explored in a comical manner the tragedy of Algeria's war of independence by portraying the misadventures of its main character, a bourgeois character trapped in the midst of the Algerian revolution.
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The film presents violence as an unavoidable stage in the conflict between colonizer and colonized; in this regard, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina chose to focus on the predicament of Algerian peasant communities and emphasized the gap that separated the rural Algerian peasantry from the wealthy French colonists.
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Characteristically, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina has consistently chosen to portray the ideological debates surrounding the construction of a national identity amidst the violent struggle against colonial domination through the representation of a national collective represented by single heroic characters, such as Ahmad, or typical antiheroes such as Hassan Terro.
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Equally, the prominence of the peasant world in Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina's filmography seems to consecrate rural life as one of the most important scenarios in the construction of national identity.
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In Sand storm, released in 1982, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina portrays the life of an isolated rural community fragmented by violence.
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The plot allows Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina to explore the difficult terrain of gender relations and gender violence.