Vote off
Synopsis
Fayçal Hammoum recounts the 2014 presidential election through non-voting inhabitants of Algiers who, like him, are in their thirties. Be it Bilel, a grocer by default exposed to his customersâ political babbling, or the more politically-charged comments of Younes, a militant FM radio journalist opposed to President Bouteflikaâs fourth term, the variety of conversational scenes in no way changes the determination not to vote for an old man who has been invisible for almost two years. The rappers Omar and Brahim are as bereft of hope and voterâs cards as the Tellek webradio DJ, since âthe match is fixedâ. Moving away from his focus on this subject to film their daily life, the filmmaker draws the portrait of a generation who, as Bilal says with poignant simplicity, âjust wants to live
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