NOS FRANGINS / OUR BROTHERS

December 5th, 1986. Thousands of students protest for higher education reforms. Abdel Benyahia (20) is killed by a drunken cop in a Paris suburb. Several hours later, Malik Oussekine is pursued and beaten to death by three police officers. When Inspector Daniel Mattei is appointed to investigate, the police force and the government collude to cover up Abdel’s death and to discredit the murdered man. As revolt threatens to erupt amidst a population horrified by Malik’s murder in the heart of Paris, the families of both victims, while never meeting, struggle to understand what really happened that night…

RACHID BOUCHAREB

Rachid Bouchareb (Paris, 1959) is a French director, producer, and screenwriter. He burst onto the scene as a short film director, before going on the found his 3B Productions production company. Throughout his career, he has tirelessly questioned history through his many feature films: Cheb (1991), which won him an Award of the Youth at Festival de Cannes, Days of Glory (2006), for which the entire cast was awarded the Best Actor Award at Cannes, and Outside the Law (2010), which saw him back in Competition in Cannes. Three of his films received Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominations, Dust of Life (1995), Days of Glory (2006), and Outside the Law (2010) for Algeria. He went on to film an American trilogy: Just Like a Woman (2012), Two Men in Town (2014) and Belleville Cop (2018).

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A strong filmic imprint of individual and collective memory on a doubly emblematic social phenomenon which younger generations should know about."

Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa