Z'har (Arabic: زهر) is a 2009 Algerian film directed by Fatma Zohra Zamoum.

Z'har
Directed byFatma Zohra Zamoun
Screenplay byFatma Zohra Zamoun
Produced byLes Films du Cygne
StarringFadila Belkebla, Kader Kada, Eddy Lemar, Fatma Zohra Zamoun, Omar Zamoun, Saliha Ziani, Allel Ziani, Guermia Douaifia, Khlifi El Eulmi, Morad Gourissi
CinematographyBenjamin Chartier
Edited byJulien Chiaretto
Music byOlivier Manganelli, Takfarinas
Release date
  • 2009 (2009)
Running time
78'
CountriesAlgeria
France

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1997: Alia is a Parisian photographer, travelling from Tunis to Constantine (Algiers) to see her sick father. Cherif is a writer and has just read, according to the newspapers, that he's dead. Their driver is a cab driver used to doing the Tunis-Constantine route. 2007: Fatma Zohra asks her brother to go with her on a location scout. The film is dear to her heart because it portrays the violence that swept Algiers during the nineties. The crew starts out on a two thousand kilometre journey that leads to a hypothetical fiction or the dream of one during which the main characters get to know one another. But the project can't find financing. How does one carry out a fiction when all is against you?

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