VENICE 2022 Giornate degli Autori
Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen
"It's a story that the Algerians have never seen before and which they need in order to dig deep into their history and culture"
by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso
VENISE 2022: The directing duo straddles reality and legend as it retraces a historical event from 16th-century Algeria from Queen Zaphira's perspective
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film profile], the feature debut by Algerian director and actress Adila Bendimerad and French-Algerian helmer Damien Ounouri straddles reality and legend as it retraces a historical event from 16th-century Algeria from a female perspective - that of Queen Zaphira. We talked to them about it during the 19th Giornate degli Autori at Venice, where the film has been selected in competition.
