Petite Casbah © Les films du préau
Petite Casbah © Les films du préau

Little Casbah

The Stories of Alice Zeniter

  • Meeting-
  • Projection-
  • School-related-
  • 4th Grade-
  • 5th Grade-
  • High School-
  • Middle School-
  • Second Grade-
  • Third Grade

On November 6, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., there will be a screening and a Q&A session with two of the film’s directors for students in CE1 and above

Written by Alice Zeniter, Alice Carré, and Marie De Banville
Directed by Antoine Colomb

Algeria, June 1955.

Khadidja leaves Kabylie to join her older brother Malek in Algiers. After an altercation at the market, he is arrested by the police, and Khadidja finds herself alone. Fortunately, Lyes, Ahmed, and Philippe will do everything they can to help her find Malek. From the rooftops of the Casbah, the four children conduct their investigation.

A film that transcends Algeria’s borders; many elements make this story universal, since—beyond the relationship between colonizers and the colonized—we follow a group of children who come together and rise up against injustice.

A 1-hour-and-20-minute screening, followed by a 45-minute discussion with the two authors, Alice Carré and Alice Zeniter.

On November 6, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., there will be a screening and a Q&A session with two of the film’s directors for students in CE1 and above

Petite Casbah © Les films du préau
Petite Casbah © Les films du préau

Written by Alice Zeniter, Alice Carré, and Marie De Banville
Directed by Antoine Colomb

Algeria, June 1955.

Khadidja leaves Kabylie to join her older brother Malek in Algiers. After an altercation at the market, he is arrested by the police, and Khadidja finds herself alone. Fortunately, Lyes, Ahmed, and Philippe will do everything they can to help her find Malek. From the rooftops of the Casbah, the four children conduct their investigation.

A film that transcends Algeria’s borders; many elements make this story universal, since—beyond the relationship between colonizers and the colonized—we follow a group of children who come together and rise up against injustice.

A 1-hour-and-20-minute screening, followed by a 45-minute discussion with the two authors, Alice Carré and Alice Zeniter.