Les Jours d'avant
Karim Moussaoui
A housing project south of Algiers, in the mid-1990s. Although Djaber and Yamina are neighbors, they do not know one another. For each of them, meeting the opposite sexisso difficult they have almost stopped believing it to be possible. Over the course of a few days, however, what had previously only been a muffled and distant violence breaks out right in front of them, changing their lives forever.
Screenplay : Karim Moussaoui, Virginie Legeay
Image : David Chambille
Editing : Julien Chigot
Sound : Arnaud Marten
Decors : Amira Merrakchi
Image : David Chambille
Editing : Julien Chigot
Sound : Arnaud Marten
Decors : Amira Merrakchi
Production : Les Loupiottes
Born in 1976, Karim Moussaoui today lives in Algiers, where he is a programme planner at the Institut Français. He is one of the founding members of Chrysalide, an Algerian cultural association for promoting the cinema. In 2004 he started directing more concretely, working as a first assistant director. In 2011, his feature film script En attendant les hirondelles was chosen for the Méditalents scriptwriting workshop. While there he met Virginie Legeay with whom he wrote his first produced short film, Les Joursd'avant.