Algeria: Two Algerian Movies Awarded At International Oriental Film Festival in Geneva

Geneva — Two Algerian movies received awards at the tenth International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva (FIFOG, March 20-29), the event's organizers said Sunday.

Lyes Salem's El Wahrani (2014), won the Special Jury Award for "the discussions it raised in current society," and Bahia Allouache's "Cinema Chkoupi"(2013), which received an award "because it depicts the urban and creative life, with the difficulties it faces, a life such as it may be here, there as somewhere else."

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