1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,440 CALENTURE, from the Latin calēre, FROM THE QUALITY OF BEING WARM. 4 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,120 The lexicon dates from the 16th century, 5 00:01:00,313 --> 00:01:03,480 in the context of the first ultramarine voyages. 6 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,200 It means FEVER, HYPERTHERMIA. 7 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,880 A phrenic delirium that spontaneously strikes mariners 8 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:11,960 during long journeys 9 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,240 in extremely hot latitudes, 10 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,200 particularly near the equator or heading toward the Tropics. 11 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,200 The calentura occurs during the night while the mariner is asleep: 12 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,720 the individual wakes up lost and runs onto the deck of the ship. 13 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,280 There, he imagines, amidst the waves breaking on the high seas, 14 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,480 trees, forests and meadows adorned in flowers; 15 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:41,360 He rejoices at this mirage, with a thousand joyful exclamations: 16 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,480 he shows a burning desire to throw himself into these meadows. 17 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,760 As if his mission had at last been accomplished. 18 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,520 If the other mariners are not sufficient in agility or numbers 19 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,840 to oppose the whim of this madness, his death is certain. 20 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:55,033 MARINER OF THE MOUNTAINS. 21 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,160 January 12, 2019. 22 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:38,960 Dear mother, 23 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,520 I'm writing to you from the middle of nowhere. 24 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:44,960 I'm in the middle of the Mediterranean, 25 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,320 in a rusty-old tub of an Algerian vessel. 26 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,840 Twenty hours from now, 27 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,480 Algeria will cease to be a blindspot in my mind 28 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,920 and will take on smells, colours and forms of its own. 29 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,920 And you won't be by my side to see what it's like, 30 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,240 this place that has haunted us all our lives. 31 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,840 If you were with me, we'd have taken a plane. 32 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:16,480 Alone, 33 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,480 I prefer to do the crossing by sea. 34 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,560 I potter around, 35 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,320 wondering why it took me so long to make this trip. 36 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,920 I'm hit with this anxiety to get this trip over with, and go home; 37 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,320 to stop thinking about all this. 38 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,760 I've spent 54 years thinking about this. 39 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,600 Ladies and gentlemen, 40 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,400 passengers of the cabin class are invited to the dining room. 41 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,200 Ladies and gentlemen, 42 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,280 passengers of the cabin class are invited to the dining room. 43 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:29,880 Enjoy your meal, thank you! 44 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,120 Not long out of Marseille, dinner was served. 45 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,240 The same menu for everyone: 46 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,560 tasteless chicken, with sour cream sauce, 47 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,000 some form of rice, fries, and an orange-flavored soft drink. 48 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,560 Whenever you spoke of traveling by boat, 49 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,920 you'd evoke the stink of engine grease, 50 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,320 and how it made you vomit. 51 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,720 I'm exhausted and I try to sleep. But it's impossible. 52 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:41,200 There's this constant dripping from the sink of this tiny cabin. 53 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,000 But I don't want to arrive in Algiers a wreck, 54 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,200 so I close my eyes and end up nodding off. 55 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:54,920 I dream of you, 56 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,640 like I've been doing since I decided to make this trip. 57 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:01,680 In this dream, 58 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,200 I see someone breaking into our backyard. 59 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,080 I run to you and try to tell you, but you don't see anyone. 60 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,520 I'm scared, I start to shout, 61 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,280 but you can't hear me. 62 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,080 Suddenly, you're standing there, pregnant, in a cargo plane. 63 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,280 The plane is noisy as hell, with groaning metal. 64 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,240 Suddenly you land on a beach covered with palm trees. 65 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,040 You run towards the water, a huge wave crashes on the rocks, 66 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,680 and drenches you with fronds of red seaweed, 67 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,120 the same seaweed you used to research. 68 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,360 I wake up with an image of you pregnant, 69 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,000 standing in the sea, smothered in seaweed. 70 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,280 I can't get back to sleep. 71 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,880 Iracema, 72 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,480 my imaginary travel companion. 73 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,480 It's 7:58 AM 74 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,720 the day I saw Algiers for the first time. 75 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,240 I spend ages waiting at Customs. 76 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,440 When it's my turn, I show my passport. 77 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,640 The officer asks my name. 78 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:44,840 He understood it straight away. 79 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:50,000 It was the first time in my life I didn't have to spell my name. 80 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,080 He asks me where I'm heading to. 81 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,040 I say I'm stopping by Algiers and then I'm off to Kabylia. 82 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,160 He looks quizzical, asks if I have relatives in Kabylia. 83 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:06,640 I change the subject. 84 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,760 I say I'm a journalist doing a story for a Brazilian TV channel. 85 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,880 He smiles, and asks if I know Zidane. 86 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,000 Little does he know how much I detest football. 87 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,360 The taxi driver says it is 8ºC outside. 88 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,680 The cold here reminds me of Fortaleza. 89 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,920 What a hot city. 90 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,760 At midday, we feel our ears will burst into flames. 91 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,640 Growing up, I used to think we were different, 92 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,560 with this Kabyle name nobody could pronounce. 93 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,640 We were the only Aïnouz: you and I. 94 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,480 It was strange not knowing my father. 95 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:42,680 But I also loved imagining we were special. 96 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,320 As if we belonged to a secret clan. 97 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,520 Onto an extraordinary mission in Latin America, 98 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,240 waiting for a secret agent to arrive from a very distant place, 99 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:56,680 from a mysterious land. 100 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,160 I take a shower to wash off the brine of the sea. 101 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,000 I order room service 102 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,000 I end up eating a cold cheese sandwich 103 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,080 while looking out the window. 104 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,480 There's a huge monument in the middle of the city. 105 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:00,680 I wonder what is this monument. 106 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,040 I know so little about this place. 107 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,480 When I was a kid, I was curious about it. 108 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,600 As I got older I stopped caring about this Algerian clan, this Kabylia, 109 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:23,080 this faraway place, across the sea, 110 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,200 from where this father kept sending postcards. 111 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,920 I called my father a few days before I left. 112 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:01,760 We hadn't spoken in a while. 113 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,000 I wanted to be the one to tell him I was coming, 114 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,200 before he found out on his own. 115 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,040 He wanted to come along. 116 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,680 He, who never told me much about this place, 117 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,800 who never invited you to visit the place where he was born. 118 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,600 I told him I'd rather take this trip by myself. 119 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:34,560 With you. 120 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,680 Hello. What are you doing? 121 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,760 Very well, I'm Brazilian. 122 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,960 - Brazilian? - My father is Algerian, 123 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,360 and it's my first time here in Algeria. 124 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,800 - Welcome. - Thank you. 125 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,880 - So I'm recording some footage. - Footage of Algeria? 126 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:15,840 Yes. For me. 127 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,760 - For you? To keep? - Yes. 128 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:24,960 Maybe I'll do something with it, because it's the first time. 129 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:26,840 I'm filming. 130 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,480 - You come often to Algeria? - First time. 131 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:33,000 - First time? - Yes, yes. 132 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,760 - First time? - It's my first time, yes. 133 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,200 - In French? You speak French? - Yes. 134 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,160 Oh it is quite something, not bad. 135 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,600 - It's beautiful, right? - It is fascinating. 136 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,200 - Can I take a look? - Yes, go ahead. 137 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,080 - Yes, I don't see well so. - Look. 138 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:55,600 - Is it filming everything? - Yes, yes. 139 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,600 - Is it film or digital? - It's digital. 140 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,920 - Where are you from? - Brazil. 141 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,880 - Brazilian. I salute you. - Thank you. Likewise. 142 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,240 - Oscar Niemeyer. - Yes. 143 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,800 I came across a bunch of street typists. 144 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,360 I think they fill out forms for people. 145 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,640 You didn't tell us you were coming with a friend. 146 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:31,080 I remember the sound of the typewriter in your office. 147 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:36,680 When I left Fortaleza you wrote me almost every week. 148 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,960 Phone calls were very expensive. 149 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:47,160 The day I cleaned out your apartment, I found a lot of old letters. 150 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,920 But I never found the ones you exchanged with my father, 151 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:55,040 from when you two arrived in the United States. 152 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,360 You in Madison, 153 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,320 and him, in Colorado. 154 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,680 You told you won the Madison Post Office prize. 155 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,600 In one month, I think at the end of 1962, 156 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,280 you received more letters than anyone else in the whole city. 157 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,880 I've often wondered what you two wrote to each other so much. 158 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,120 You telling him about your seaweed, 159 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,360 your roommates, 160 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:35,960 how much you missed your sister Jamacy, 161 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,240 your mother Branca, 162 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,880 and the heat of Fortaleza. 163 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,040 And him, telling you about the snow-capped mountains of Colorado, 164 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:49,200 a road trip to Las Vegas, 165 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,800 and the small house he'd found for the two of you to live together. 166 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,360 Or were you talking about the situation in Brazil, 167 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,600 with a military coup looming on the horizon? 168 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,880 And he'd tell you of a new era in Algiers, 169 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:19,600 of the Independence celebrations that seized the streets. 170 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,720 I'll never know what was in those letters. 171 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,160 You burnt them all before you died. 172 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,080 I'm tired, 173 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,360 but I don't want to sleep. 174 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,240 Two men approached me. 175 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,120 They wanted to know where I came from. 176 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:21,320 They thought it odd that a Brazilian was out alone at night in Algiers. 177 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,720 Just give me 50 dinars' worth. 178 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:48,800 Yes, a cup. 179 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,040 You pour it from one cup into the other. 180 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,400 Yes, it's like that under the tents. 181 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,280 I am telling you, you have to see it. 182 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,160 It's good? 183 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,560 I decide to head back to the hotel, but realize I'm lost. 184 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,200 I end up in another square, where guys are singing and dancing. 185 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,000 We Algerians, we love joy. We love freedom. 186 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,920 We love freedom. 187 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,880 Freedom is the only thing we have left. 188 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:17,880 Iracema, 189 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,560 if I'd found my way back to the hotel, 190 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,960 I wouldn't have stopped here, 191 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,200 where the ghost town, becomes a cheerful town full of life, 192 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,320 where Algiers the White 193 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:32,720 became Algiers... 194 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,920 the Red. 195 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,040 I slept like a log until late. 196 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,360 If you were here, 197 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,680 we'd have woken early. 198 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,400 Since it was past noon, 199 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,080 breakfast was over at the hotel. 200 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,960 I went out to find to something to eat. 201 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,560 I listened to conversations I couldn't understand 202 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,360 as a man started staring into the camera, all wary. 203 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,360 He was cross-eyed, he had a glassy eye. 204 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,520 Do you remember the first time you took me to the ophthalmologist? 205 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,320 I was 9. 206 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,800 The doctor diagnosed me with keratoconus. 207 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,240 A cornea deformation. 208 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,400 A congenital disorder. 209 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,440 You assured him no one in our family suffered from that condition. 210 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,200 You probably thought it came from my father's side. 211 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,120 It must have been odd 212 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:14,280 raising a son without knowing his other half. 213 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,640 I decided to visit the monument I spotted from my hotel window, 214 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,920 the Martyrs' Memorial, 215 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,920 built to honour the heroes who died fighting the French army. 216 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,840 It seems over a million people died in the war. 217 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,400 I wondered if the weight of all the dead 218 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,720 would outweigh the cement used for this monument. 219 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,240 I was taking pictures in the outskirts of Algiers, 220 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,040 when this elderly man came up and introduced himself. 221 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,640 He was a retired fisherman. 222 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,680 He comes here every evening to have a smoke, gazing at the sea. 223 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,200 After I told him I'm a journalist, he told me he fought on the front. 224 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,360 He pulled out his ID and stated, proudly, 225 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,680 he still knows how to shoot with an AK103. 226 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,080 He showed me a scar where a bullet grazed his head. 227 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:07,080 He said he lost both parents, his brothers and a sister in the war. 228 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,520 He must be over ninety. 229 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,800 About the same age you'd be if you were still alive. 230 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,280 - Hello. - Hello. 231 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,280 - How are you? - I'm very well and you? How are you? 232 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,400 In Algeria, there are a lot of problems. 233 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,520 At least the harbor is well maintained. 234 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,080 Smoke, smoke, smoke... 235 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,040 no good, smoke, smoke, no good. 236 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,280 - There is no work. - No, no work. 237 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,680 No work. 238 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,000 After the old man left, three guys came up to me, 239 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,160 they wanted to tell me about their lives, 240 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,480 which consist of looking at the sea, dreaming of getting away. 241 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,840 One of them, the one in the Gucci cap, is 23. 242 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:18,280 He's tried to leave Algeria 8 times, and was deported back 8 times. 243 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,800 He tells me something that haunts me. 244 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,600 He wished the French had never left. 245 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:33,680 Iracema, 246 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,600 I want to understand what he feels. 247 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,920 If it's rage towards the present, 248 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,920 or if it's the anger of being haunted by a past drenched in blood? 249 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,960 Maybe he isn't thinking of the past, he wants to have faith in the future. 250 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,440 The boys leave and I stay, staring at the sea. 251 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,960 It feels like I'm no longer in Algiers, 252 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:39,360 but I'm in Fortaleza. 253 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,920 It was one Sunday at the beach, 254 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,760 when I inquired about my father for the first time. 255 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,880 I think I was 8. 256 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,080 Instead of telling me the story of my father, 257 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,320 you told me the story of the novel Iracema, 258 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,120 The forbidden love between a Tabajara native 259 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,720 and a Portuguese colonizer, 260 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,800 which bears the first Brazilian child 261 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,200 and ends in tragedy. 262 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,360 Your eyes were glued to the sea, 263 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:30,520 and I could sense your fierce desire to cross the Atlantic, 264 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,560 in order to arrive here 265 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,760 where I am now. 266 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,520 Did your decision to sequence the DNA of a red seaweed 267 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,800 had something to do with a yearning to wade into the ocean 268 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,000 and come out on the other side of the world? 269 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,240 It was that red seaweed that earned you a scholarship 270 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,000 to leave to the United States. 271 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,360 How could something you could only see under a microscope, 272 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,120 change someone's life forever? 273 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:08,760 I picture your heart 274 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,080 when you embarked on a plane from Fortaleza to Washington. 275 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,560 I know one thing. 276 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,520 It was on a bowling outing with the other foreign students, 277 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,200 when you met my father. 278 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,640 He left Kabylia to study engineering in America 279 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,840 so he could return to rebuild a free Algeria. 280 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,920 I wonder if on that first night you talked in French 281 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,400 or in English. 282 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,480 Then you both left Washington. 283 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,640 You moved to Madison and him to Colorado. 284 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,400 You spent months exchanging only through letters. 285 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,720 The same letters that earned you the Post Office Prize. 286 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,200 It was 1963, once you finished your Master's Degree, 287 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,600 that you moved to Colorado. 288 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,960 I never saw you two together, 289 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,720 except on the photos that you kept from that time. 290 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,080 Like in a love story with Audrey Hepburn and Jean-Paul Belmondo. 291 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,640 I wonder how you felt when you said goodbye. 292 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:37,840 You, pregnant, returning to a Brazil taken over by the military 293 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,800 and him embarking to the Mecca of Revolution, 294 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,440 to Independent Algeria. 295 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:54,000 You had a farewell kiss and he promised he'd come back for you, 296 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,880 to start a life together, here. 297 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,680 You, him and I. 298 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,120 Or maybe not. 299 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,440 Maybe nothing was said, there was no farewell kiss. 300 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,760 There were so many things I wanted to ask you. 301 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,600 Were you still waiting for him, that day, in Fortaleza, 302 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,480 while gazing at that chopping sea? 303 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,000 Did you still dream of coming here? 304 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,120 Were you still in love with him? 305 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,840 I don't think so. 306 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,280 When you told me the story of IracemaI think you'd had enough of Algeria, 307 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,320 of Kabylia, of Majid 308 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,640 and of this whole thing. 309 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,840 Was it on that very day that my desire to make this voyage was born? 310 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,080 Before I knew it, it was almost night 311 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,560 and I was still here, looking at the sea. 312 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:17,120 I've noticed they speak a different language here. 313 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,880 I don't know if it's Kabyle, Berber or Tamazight. 314 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,400 Once again, someone asks where I come from, 315 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,600 and takes a picture of me. 316 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,840 And I keep asking myself how do they know I'm a foreigner. 317 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,200 The owner was impressed when I said I was a journalist. 318 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,320 He offers me freshly squeezed orange juice. 319 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,400 It was good. 320 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,680 I was sick of sodas and cartoned stuff. 321 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,080 I have finally arrived in Kabylia. It feels like another world. 322 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,160 I decided to stop at this lake, 323 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,600 which I'm not sure if it's a lake or a reservoir. 324 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:54,760 While filming, 325 00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:59,600 I wondered if one of these kids could be my distant relative, 326 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,200 a second or third degree cousin. 327 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,400 Portuguese, it's like Spanish, right? 328 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,360 Portuguese is nicer. 329 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,600 I speak Spanish. 330 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,040 I understand, no problem. 331 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,320 My name is Katia. 332 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,440 Your name is Katia? 333 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,560 You enjoy Algeria? 334 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,480 - Beautiful country. - Very beautiful. 335 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:38,720 So sir, you are in Algeria for how many times before? 336 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,360 When you come to Algeria? One day? 337 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,360 A couple of days ago. 338 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,960 Then your documentary is gonna be ready when? 339 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,120 - Next year. - Next year? 340 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:56,080 Can you tell us the title, so we can find it and watch it. 341 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,680 - When will it be out? - I don't know yet. 342 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,960 How did I think I could be a cousin of one of those kids? 343 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,760 As if Kabylia were one big family. 344 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,880 I ended up in a village called Beni Yenni. 345 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,840 Traditionally, they were swordsmiths here 346 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,280 because of the surrounding silver mines. 347 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,920 When the Arabs forbade it, the locals started making jewelry instead. 348 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,960 If you were here, you'd have bought a lot of them. 349 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,720 I remember a coral necklace you had, 350 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,760 but rarely wore, because you were against coral harvesting, 351 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,240 which messed the ecosystem of your red seaweed. 352 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,040 It struck me that your birthday would be in the coming days. 353 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:55,160 I get the urge to buy a necklace to give you as a gift. 354 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,360 I started to choose then I heard you saying: 355 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,240 "Don't be silly, Karim. Keep it in your savings account". 356 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,120 The jeweller asked me what I was doing here. 357 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,280 I told him I was lost, I was looking for Tagmut Azuz, 358 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,720 the village where my father was born. 359 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,800 He said it wasn't far from here. 360 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,040 He asked if my father was alive. I said yes, 361 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,960 he lives in Paris and has a place in Algiers. 362 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,240 He asked if my father was with me. 363 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,200 I said no, that I don't see him often 364 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,160 and wanted to make this trip alone. 365 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,520 I decide to get a haircut, 366 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:11,800 not that I have much hair left. 367 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,080 You'd have hated it. 368 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,120 You always complained that I got my hair cut too short, 369 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,600 that it made me look like a soldier. 370 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,800 I wanted to look more like them 371 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,200 so they'd stop asking me where I come from 372 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,520 and what I'm doing here. 373 00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,280 I saw a woman with a scarf on her head. 374 00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,960 I wanted to go over and talk to her, 375 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,840 as if she were you, 376 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,960 as if you'd come to live here, 377 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:13,160 and were staring at these mountains, remembering Fortaleza's seascape. 378 00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:22,000 I thought I had come to Kabylia, 379 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:26,200 in search of something that might make me better understand who I am, 380 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,760 some answer that I can give when I'm asked where I come from. 381 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,840 But everything I see around here makes me think of you, Iracema. 382 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,800 Today, more than ever, 383 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,480 I miss you so much. 384 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,800 I found a recently built hotel nearby. 385 00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,360 The room is big, with two single beds. 386 00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,280 The shower is ice cold, 387 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,320 the towels were folded into a bunny-like shape. 388 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,640 And the mattress is too soft. 389 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:44,680 What would it have been to live in a country becoming so conservative? 390 00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:49,280 Would you have agreed to give up your red seaweed 391 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,400 and to live on top of these mountains, 392 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,200 away from the sea? 393 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,000 I doubt it. 394 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,080 If you were here with me, we would be relieved 395 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,320 that Majid never came back to take us away with him. 396 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:11,360 I was happy living with you and my grandmother at 880 Santana Jr. Av., 397 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,680 in the Papicu neighborhood. 398 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,520 Going to the beach every weekend. 399 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,000 Were you also happy? 400 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:51,400 At breakfast, I notice some old pictures of Kabylia on the wall. 401 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,440 They were certainly taken by a French traveler 402 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,520 depicting the Kabyles as exotic tribe, 403 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:05,000 savage and ancestral. 404 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,680 I imagine how was the life of these people 405 00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,960 who have been living in these mountains for centuries, 406 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,520 since long before the French invaded. 407 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,840 How was the life of my grandfather, 408 00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:23,880 of my great-grandfather, 409 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,000 of my great-grandmother? 410 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,840 I'll never forget my arrival in Tagmut Azuz. 411 00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:10,840 Make beautiful images of me and Kabylia. 412 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:20,000 Suddenly, a woman opens the door and comes out of her house. 413 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,880 She looks me in the eye and says: 414 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,080 "Make our Kabylia look beautiful." 415 00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,760 I think my haircut must have worked. 416 00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,920 This woman thinks I'm really from here. 417 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:19,560 I spot a boy walking to school and ask if I can take his picture. 418 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:24,360 I try to get him in the frame wondering how it would have been 419 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,640 if this had been my own daily walk to school. 420 00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,480 Would I have moved to Algiers and become an engineer? 421 00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,560 Would I have found a wife and had twin kids to raise? 422 00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,760 And dreamt of living in Zürich? 423 00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,480 Or maybe I'd never have left this village 424 00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,760 until I reached 54 425 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,080 when I'd have travelled to Fortaleza 426 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,480 to see where my Iracema was born? 427 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:11,920 I'd be now, staring at the Atlantic, wondering how my life would have been. 428 00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,440 Can you imagine? 429 00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,360 It would have been my life inside out. 430 00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:46,200 Hello. 431 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,560 For the first time, nobody is paying attention to me. 432 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,760 I feel like a spy, disguised as a Kabyle. 433 00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,680 Everyone here could be a sibling of my genitor, 434 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,040 which is how you started to call him after a certain point. 435 00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,640 What would it have been like had I met my father here, 436 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,200 instead of a café in Paris? 437 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:43,760 I remember, 438 00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,280 he was waiting for me at a table outside, 439 00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,160 squeezed onto a narrow sidewalk. 440 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:55,200 A stranger, in a navy-blue suit & tie, sitting across from me. 441 00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,800 I was 18. 442 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:06,200 I grew up imagining Majid as a cross of Yuri Gagarin and Che Guevara. 443 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:08,920 He was neither. 444 00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,480 He was an ordinary man. 445 00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:16,080 An engineer married to an Algerian, with whom he had a daughter. 446 00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:20,320 He didn't look like a member of a secret clan, 447 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,640 who grew up in the mountains, and survived many wars. 448 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,240 So many years wanting to ask him so many questions 449 00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,440 suddenly we didn't have much to say to one another. 450 00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:37,360 We finished our coffee, said goodbye 451 00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,800 and I rushed to call you. 452 00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,040 I wanted to tell you everything, but you didn't want to know. 453 00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:47,040 You changed subjects. 454 00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:52,840 Today, I understand it must have been awkward for you, 455 00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:00,720 my meeting the man with whom you'd dreamt of a shared life, 456 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,080 and whom you never saw again. 457 00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,400 Today I think I understand you, Iracema. 458 00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:26,080 I understand I'll never grasp the extent of what you lived together. 459 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,560 And then a well-dressed gentleman approached me. 460 00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:45,720 I think he'd been following me since I left the café. 461 00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:47,560 Hello. 462 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:49,440 He caught me so off-guard 463 00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:53,040 that when he asked my name, I didn't lie. 464 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:57,520 He laughed and went to get a man who introduced himself excitedly. 465 00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:06,840 My name is Aïnouz Karim. 466 00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:10,200 I was born on August 15th 1966, in Tagmut Azuz. 467 00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,040 I am a businessman. 468 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:18,480 Pleased to meet you, the second Mr. Aïnouz Karim. 469 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,080 Pleased to meet you. 470 00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,600 Look, Aïnouz Karim. 471 00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:35,480 And these are my children. There you go. 472 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:40,560 He even showed me his ID to prove we were born in the same year. 473 00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:42,640 Pleased to meet you. Thank you. 474 00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,600 Can you imagine how it felt, after thinking you were one of kind, 475 00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:50,760 to arrive in a small village on top of a North-African Mountain, 476 00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,280 and be introduced to my doppelgänger. 477 00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,120 In one minute he introduced me to the whole village. 478 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:03,680 Welcome to our home, in the heart of Kabylia. 479 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:06,040 Long live Kabylia. 480 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,600 Kabylia, my beautiful country. 481 00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:17,600 We are proud of you. 482 00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,600 It's a pleasure. 483 00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:13,360 Good morning. 484 00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:18,720 How are you? 485 00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,800 Have you seen your brother? 486 00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,160 Aïnouz? 487 00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:29,800 Not him. 488 00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,280 The one that lives there. 489 00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,640 Have you seen that tree? 490 00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:45,960 This tree is more than a century old. 491 00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:54,320 I've advised him to seek an elder to answer him. 492 00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,720 - What do you want me to say? - No, you are right. 493 00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:01,000 - You need an elderly person. - Yes an elder is best. 494 01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:05,200 - Yesterday he was in the square. - I saw him at a café. 495 01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:06,999 He was taking pictures of the At-Azzouz district. 496 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,840 - He is U-Yidir At-Bouzid's grandson. - Yes, but I don't know him. 497 01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:12,400 Me neither. 498 01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:17,320 An elder who knows the village could answer his questions, 499 01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:21,120 explain why we gave this district the name At-Azzouz. 500 01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,520 What do you want me to tell him? I told him the name of the alley. 501 01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,200 That's the end of the story. 502 01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:43,720 This house belongs to a woman 503 01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,840 who might be my cousin or my aunt. 504 01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,080 He is French. 505 01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,080 - Who is he? - He's family. 506 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,360 How do you know? 507 01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,240 How do you know he's family? 508 01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:00,480 - He's Aïnouz. - Yes. 509 01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:02,920 - God bless him. - How are you? 510 01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,760 She introduced me to her daughter, to her niece and even her grandson, 511 01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,880 the same boy I met on his way to school in the morning. 512 01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:15,920 Some of them spoke a little French, but it was hard to communicate. 513 01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,880 It's someone from our family who's here to film us. 514 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:27,000 He's from the Aïnouz family. From my mother's side. 515 01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:30,360 Yes he's an Aïnouz. 516 01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:31,880 The children are curious. 517 01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,280 - He said yes. - Thanks a lot. 518 01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:38,040 Yes because he's French. My French is bad. 519 01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:42,280 No my daughter, he's an Aïnouz. He's not French. 520 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,840 Maybe he's only called Aïnouz. 521 01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:53,440 Yes, maybe he only calls himself Aïnouz to coax us. 522 01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:55,840 - Karim Aïnouz? - Yes, Aïnouz Karim. 523 01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:58,560 - On the internet. - Yes that's it. 524 01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:01,840 You'll see there are plenty of photos. 525 01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:08,080 Tell me, is the movie going to be on TV? 526 01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,960 No, in movie theaters, not on TV. 527 01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,000 Movie theaters? Oh, okay. At the cinema. 528 01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:15,360 - Abroad? - What do you mean? 529 01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,480 Ah, so it won't be on TV for us to see? 530 01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:23,480 It should be aired in Algeria so we can see it. 531 01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:27,400 My sister wants to know 532 01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:31,640 if it's possible to put it on Facebook? 533 01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:33,000 On Facebook. 534 01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:39,640 So with these photos I'll be in the USA, Tunisia, Zimbabwe. 535 01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:47,840 Switzerland. 536 01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,720 He's only filming me. I only have to smile. 537 01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:57,600 What do you want me to say? I'm waiting for my fate. 538 01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,960 Me, the state I'm in, what do you want me to say? Nothing. 539 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,080 I only have my eyes left to cry. 540 01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:11,040 He's not a stranger. He's my brother-in-law. 541 01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,640 Tell him it's for the day he comes back. 542 01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:20,680 She's saying when you come back she'll fill you up with cakes. 543 01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,040 He said okay. 544 01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:26,040 Tell him that my sister will offer him a box. 545 01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:29,040 She'll give you a big box. 546 01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:34,920 She says you'll have a big box of cakes and a wife too. 547 01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:43,520 - He's kidding. - She doesn't have a daughter for him. 548 01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:32,280 She's a young woman. Come on, use the wall to help you walk. 549 01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:37,920 If she walked assiduously, in 6 days I'm sure she'd lose weight. 550 01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:42,120 Who is he, why is he filming us? 551 01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:44,520 I don't know. 552 01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,480 - Wait, I'm going to stop here a bit. - Who's this person filming us? 553 01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:54,880 I have no idea who this could be. 554 01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:59,600 - We're here, take your picture. - No, don't take my picture. 555 01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,480 I don't know where these photos will end up. 556 01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,480 Let me through, don't take my picture. 557 01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:10,520 - What's going on here? - What's this photo business? 558 01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,440 - Wait, I'll explain it to you. - He's an Aïnouz. 559 01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:16,760 An Aïnouz? Who are his parents? 560 01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:21,360 His grandfather is called Idir and his father Majid Aïnouz. 561 01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:23,280 Okay, I see. 562 01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:25,880 He's his son, he was born abroad. 563 01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,120 And now he wants to take our Tagmut Azuz with him. 564 01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,520 He wants to know see his village. 565 01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,320 Tell him, Tagmut Azuz is better than Paris. 566 01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,920 He came all the way to the village to film. 567 01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,040 Yes, he came to film. 568 01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:46,480 He wants to get back to his origins and keep up traditions. That's good. 569 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,520 God bless you. Shall I make you some coffee? 570 01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:09,480 Do you want a coffee? 571 01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:11,840 Here. 572 01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,640 My children are happy. They say you will take my picture. 573 01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:49,880 You're part of the family. 574 01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:53,480 You're my uncle's son. We're from the same family. 575 01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:55,680 We're all Aïnouz. 576 01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:02,400 It was my aunt who married me into this family. Do you see him? 577 01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:06,640 She married me off to an old alcoholic. 578 01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:09,120 He's always drinking. 579 01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:13,920 He's always begging. It's shameful. It's too much. 580 01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:20,240 Wait, I'm going to give a banana to uncle Idir's grandson. 581 01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:21,760 Wait. 582 01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,480 I only have two. 583 01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,000 There they are. 584 01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,520 Give them to uncle Idir's grandson. 585 01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,560 Let's take a picture. Come on, get up. 586 01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:55,320 Come on. 587 01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:01,360 Come on. Come. 588 01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:04,000 I need to be in it. 589 01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:07,880 Oh yes, put yourself like that. 590 01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,920 This is Mister Ayouni. 591 01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:14,160 Yes, Mister Ayouni. 592 01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:16,800 Ah it's okay. 593 01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:23,240 And there they are. 594 01:08:23,440 --> 01:08:26,400 Mister Ayouni and Misses Ayouni. 595 01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:28,880 Come on, come on. 596 01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:34,040 This other relative said I perhaps had a right to some land here. 597 01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:38,000 I never thought about it before, 598 01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:42,920 but suddenly I started thinking that maybe I could live here, 599 01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,160 restore one of these old houses, 600 01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,280 grow a bunch of grape vines, make wine, 601 01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:51,320 and open a nightclub. 602 01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:59,280 It was a reverie that popped into my head all of a sudden. 603 01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:01,880 A wish to start all over again 604 01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:04,840 and to become Karim Aïnouz upside-down, 605 01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:08,160 who was born in Tagmut Azuz, 606 01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:11,280 who lives in the mountains, 607 01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:14,400 and who is a nightlife impresario. 608 01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:18,960 May God protect and unite you. 609 01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:21,720 It's over. 610 01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:26,320 Long life to you. 611 01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:28,960 Long life to you, for you to discover the world. 612 01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:36,360 She tells me I must meet my great-uncle. 613 01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:39,400 She makes a point of taking me to his house. 614 01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:45,880 That's a Kabyle lemon tree. 615 01:09:47,480 --> 01:09:48,920 That's a mature fig tree. 616 01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:52,480 He shows me each plant, and describes every tree. 617 01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:54,400 This is a pomegranate tree. 618 01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:57,400 Here, even the lemon tree is Kabyle. 619 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,800 This is a plum tree. 620 01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,000 That's an avocado tree. 621 01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:16,400 That's a persimmon. 622 01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:20,120 The one over there is a four seasons lemon tree. 623 01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:24,800 Over there is a mandarin tree, the clementine. 624 01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:27,000 That there is an orange tree. 625 01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,360 By the way, there are fruits. 626 01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:35,880 Close the door, Djou. 627 01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,840 He invites me in, he wants to prepare me a couscous. 628 01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,200 I say I can't, but he insists. 629 01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:47,520 He says our surname means "generous". 630 01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:50,320 No, he says that my name means "generous". 631 01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,160 I don't think you ever knew that. 632 01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,920 He tells me about my grandfather, Idir. 633 01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:11,480 Your grandfather 634 01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,920 was a very bright man 635 01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:19,120 with an elephant's memory. 636 01:11:24,400 --> 01:11:25,840 At first, 637 01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:29,240 he married a cousin of his, 638 01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,200 they had a son, 639 01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,160 and then I don't know what happened, 640 01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:38,200 it was love at first sight 641 01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,760 he met your grandmother. 642 01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:45,880 My grandfather got married, had a son and then abandoned his wife. 643 01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:49,080 Just like your story with my father. 644 01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:53,640 He fell in love with my grandmother, with whom he had five children. 645 01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:58,920 He says that my grandparents taught Math at a school nearby. 646 01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,520 He tells me my grandfather was a revolutionary, 647 01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:07,280 who was persecuted and tortured by the French. 648 01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:11,760 He was part of the first government after the War of Independence, 649 01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:14,600 he ended up being exiled after a coup d'état 650 01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:17,520 launched from within the same party that led the Revolution. 651 01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,040 He was expelled from Algeria, 652 01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:25,200 the country he'd fought so hard for, 653 01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:27,680 nurtured such dreams for, 654 01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:30,560 and to which he could never return. 655 01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:38,600 No wonder the National Anthem sings about so much bloodshed. 656 01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:45,360 Come on. 657 01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:47,600 After the couscous, 658 01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:52,440 my great-uncle invites me to visit the house where the Aïnouz were born. 659 01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:56,280 It's good. 660 01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:58,360 Alright, let's go. 661 01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:18,200 He tells me that here in Tagmut Azuz 662 01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:22,560 that the Catholic Missionaries opened their very first school in Algeria. 663 01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:28,800 He tells me that my father and grandfather went to that school. 664 01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:36,480 My uncle tells me that my grandfather and father were born in this house. 665 01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:42,000 This house was occupied and split in two, 666 01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:46,160 so these blasted missionary priests could live here. 667 01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:54,200 According to my uncle, 668 01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,480 a Frenchman wrote that the first conquest of Algeria 669 01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,000 was achieved with the bullets of the French army 670 01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:02,920 and the defusing of the Kabyle resistance. 671 01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:09,280 The second conquest was achieved by enforcing a colonial administration. 672 01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:13,640 And the third and ultimate conquest, 673 01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:16,280 was achieved through the Missionary Schools. 674 01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:22,080 But to the colonizers' dismay, 675 01:14:22,440 --> 01:14:25,720 these schools were never enough to prevent the uprisings. 676 01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:47,960 I remember a passage from a book I brought on this trip, 677 01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:52,640 The Wretched of the Earthby Frantz Fanon. 678 01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:58,320 Page: 34. Chapter: Concerning Violence. 679 01:15:03,440 --> 01:15:06,720 "Thus the native discovers that his life, his breath, 680 01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,760 "his beating heart are the same as those of the colonizer. 681 01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:18,920 "He finds out the colonizer's skin is of no more value than a native's. 682 01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:24,640 "And this revelation unsettles the world. 683 01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:29,440 "All the revolutionary assurance of the native stems from it. 684 01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:33,880 "For if, in fact, my life is worth as much as the colonizer's, 685 01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:38,880 "if his glance no longer shrivels me up nor freezes me, 686 01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:41,840 "if his voice no longer turns me into stone, 687 01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:45,920 "I'm no longer on tenterhooks in his presence. 688 01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:50,000 "I'm already preparing such efficient ambushes for him 689 01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:53,440 "that very soon there will be no way out but that of flight." 690 01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:19,560 REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY. 691 01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:30,600 I try to imagine what this house was like before 692 01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:32,920 versus what it is now. 693 01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,560 It's a small place, Iracema. 694 01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:39,720 It must have been a shock to leave here for Colorado. 695 01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:52,600 It's her, it's not me, it's her. 696 01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:58,000 My grand-uncle's three granddaughters, my cousins, 697 01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:00,360 goof around and look at me. 698 01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:03,840 The oldest is called Ines. 699 01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,480 She volunteers to carry the camera. 700 01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:11,040 She stands behind me, by my side, attentive. 701 01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:25,600 It's funny. 702 01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:28,440 It almost seems she was waiting for me. 703 01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,800 She asks me if I want to hear a story. 704 01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:34,760 I say yes. 705 01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:37,800 She looks into the camera and tells me 706 01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:42,240 of the creation of the world as in the Kabyle mythology. 707 01:17:47,480 --> 01:17:51,400 Machaho! Tellem chaho! Once upon a time. 708 01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:58,120 This is the device that has opened Kabyle stories since bygone times. 709 01:17:59,440 --> 01:18:02,280 The age old formula that opens the doors 710 01:18:02,480 --> 01:18:05,600 onto a world so strange and yet familiar, 711 01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:11,200 where we see marvels, as in our dreams, 712 01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:17,440 or our desires are brutally frustrated like in reality. 713 01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,400 Once upon a time there was a wild buffalo, 714 01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:23,960 Itherther, 715 01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:25,680 and a heifer, 716 01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:27,240 Thamuatz. 717 01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:32,600 They lived in the depths of the Earth where no light ever reached, 718 01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:35,280 a place called Tlam. 719 01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:38,840 Tlam was a dank, dark netherworld, 720 01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,640 replete with subterranean streams. 721 01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:45,320 Until one day, 722 01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:47,800 Thamuatz falls into one of these rivers 723 01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,200 and Itherther decides to follow her. 724 01:18:52,920 --> 01:18:56,000 The underground river disgorges into a valley. 725 01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:58,320 Itherther and Thamuatz 726 01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:02,640 emerge and gaze at the light for the first time. 727 01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:07,880 Blinded by an explosion of lights, 728 01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:11,880 they climb the Atlas Mountains in order to reach the sun. 729 01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:18,960 And up on the highest peak, they conceive Achimi, 730 01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:22,200 the buffalo that gave rise to all the creatures of the world. 731 01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:35,880 Iracema, 732 01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:41,640 at that moment, I feel as though I came here just to meet my cousin. 733 01:19:41,840 --> 01:19:42,960 Ines. 734 01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:44,800 I am a ghost. 735 01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:47,600 It was as if she were your doppelgänger. 736 01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:55,920 While everybody wants to tell me about the past, war, revolution. 737 01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,760 Ines told me about a myth. 738 01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:03,160 A story from when the world wasn't even the world yet. 739 01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:06,680 It makes me want to make a movie with her. 740 01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:14,320 2021: THE ODYSSEY OF INES. 741 01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:19,720 Once upon a time 742 01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:23,200 the crew of a spaceship encounters 743 01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,280 an alien vessel in deep space. 744 01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:33,280 Ines, one of the teenage cosmonauts, 745 01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:40,160 flees the spacecraft into the unknown 746 01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:47,000 and she drifts into the void. 747 01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:55,560 Ines embarks on a new journey to a distant galaxy named Amda. 748 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:05,680 My uncle asks me if I've been to the cemetery. 749 01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:07,040 I say I haven't. 750 01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,720 He makes a point of taking me there. 751 01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:14,680 I realize that I had passed by it once. 752 01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:17,880 There's a huge tree in the middle. 753 01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:23,520 As though everyone who had died there was now part of that huge tree, 754 01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:27,560 as if it were nourished by the dead. 755 01:21:29,440 --> 01:21:32,840 Most of the headstones bore the same surname: 756 01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:34,560 Aïnouz. 757 01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:41,760 For the first time, I actually felt I had understood this place. 758 01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:48,360 Will I finally be able to explain that I also come from here? 759 01:22:09,520 --> 01:22:13,840 Suddenly it all started to tremble as if I were on the edge of a cliff. 760 01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:18,400 I felt hollow. A kind of vertigo. 761 01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:24,240 I was afraid I'd fall into a grave and never come out again. 762 01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,200 The night has fallen when I leave. 763 01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:51,520 My uncle insists that I stay. I tell him I'm booked into a hotel. 764 01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:54,320 It's a lie. The desire to stay here longer just grows, 765 01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:57,000 and I feel drawn to that tree in the middle of the cemetery. 766 01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:01,520 I'm afraid I'll never be able to leave these mountains. 767 01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:05,440 So, without saying goodbye to anyone, I head back to Algiers. 768 01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:10,680 It's dark, and I don't know what I'm doing. 769 01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,880 I retrace my route, 770 01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:17,200 back down the mountains towards the sea. 771 01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:47,320 Back in Algiers, I drive by a shopping mall and decide to stop. 772 01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:50,600 I need a familiar place, 773 01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:53,160 somewhere I can pretend I'm not here anymore. 774 01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:03,000 I take the escalators until I come across a bowling alley. 775 01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:10,920 I ask for an hourly rate, and start to play. 776 01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:20,920 I don't know if anyone notices me, because I'm long passed caring. 777 01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:28,800 I barely hit any pins, but I don't care. 778 01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:32,120 I think about you doing the same, 779 01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:35,360 laughing and having fun, 780 01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:37,320 long before I was born, 781 01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:39,560 wanting to devour life. 782 01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:04,960 I wake up the following morning with the singing of children. 783 01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:09,600 I look out the window and see that the hotel is next to a school. 784 01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:14,560 From this new room I can clearly hear the children singing the Anthem. 785 01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:23,440 I think about the War of Independence I didn't experience, 786 01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,160 but which allowed me to be born. 787 01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:31,000 It was this War that cracked open the horizons of this country, 788 01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:35,720 and allowed Majid to go to America, where you two could fall in love. 789 01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:39,000 And it was to this Revolution that he came back 790 01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:41,400 when he said farewell to you. 791 01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:04,680 I'm proud to have in my eyes the same blood 792 01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,400 that ran in the veins of that army of audacious women and men 793 01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:11,200 who fought with rusty old machine guns, 794 01:26:11,560 --> 01:26:14,320 knives and sickles, and their bare hands, 795 01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:17,360 to eject a European nation, 796 01:26:17,560 --> 01:26:20,680 which wielded the 4th largest military power in the world. 797 01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:33,840 Murderous Regime! Murderous Regime! 798 01:26:56,520 --> 01:27:00,480 A regime that makes a billion a day selling oil and gas 799 01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:03,800 and yet lets the nation rot away like a sick dog. 800 01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:10,840 Iracema, 801 01:27:11,920 --> 01:27:15,640 there are times it looks like you and Majid came from the same place. 802 01:27:19,440 --> 01:27:21,400 But I prefer to dream of a free Algeria, 803 01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:23,360 with a free Brazil, 804 01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:26,960 like you two did once. 805 01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:04,560 "Glory to Him Creator of all things. 806 01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:09,080 "And every thing its shape and its colour". 807 01:28:43,920 --> 01:28:47,200 I felt like postponing my departure and taking another boat, 808 01:28:47,400 --> 01:28:50,640 but I think it's time to leave. 809 01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,680 So I go down to the harbour and stay there, staring at the sea, 810 01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:59,400 awaiting the ship that will swoon me to the other side of the planet. 811 01:29:04,440 --> 01:29:07,200 I imagine you, breaking out in laughter, 812 01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:10,680 smoking a cigarette, wanting to engulf the world, 813 01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:13,400 waving farewell to Algiers. 814 01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:36,800 When I finally board, 815 01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:39,960 I run to the stern and stare back at the city. 816 01:29:40,480 --> 01:29:44,000 I try to understand if everything that happened here was real, 817 01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:46,600 or if it was just another dream. 818 01:30:09,480 --> 01:30:13,280 Algiers the Golden, the Red, the White, drifts away 819 01:30:13,720 --> 01:30:16,200 becoming Algiers the Grey and the Sultry, 820 01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:18,200 like a mirage. 821 01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:23,920 I remember the word "calentura", 822 01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:27,320 the term for heatstroke, 823 01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:31,560 a condition that often afflicts mariners as they reach the Tropics, 824 01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:34,880 a delirious fever that makes them imagine the sea 825 01:30:35,080 --> 01:30:36,760 as rolling green fields, 826 01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:39,080 and pushes them to want to jump overboard. 827 01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:42,320 I look into the water and I want to throw myself into this silver blue 828 01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:44,120 and ride a buffalo, 829 01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:47,440 dive into the depths until I find your beloved red seaweed. 830 01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:55,520 I want to fly, underwater, like in the myth Ines told me, 831 01:30:55,720 --> 01:30:59,040 with no past, no resentment, faceless, tearless. 832 01:31:03,360 --> 01:31:06,160 I want to fly all the way home, 833 01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:08,920 wherever those may be. 834 01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:27,360 To you, 835 01:31:27,560 --> 01:31:29,680 my beloved Iracema, 836 01:31:30,360 --> 01:31:32,640 with much saudade and joy, 837 01:31:34,560 --> 01:31:37,200 your mariner of the mountains. 838 01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:47,720 MARINER OF THE MOUNTAINS. 839 01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:17,360 I want to specially thank all the Algerians 840 01:34:17,560 --> 01:34:19,560 that have crossed my path 841 01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:22,560 and who have accepted to accompany me on this voyage.