Dream Fragments

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Dream Fragments, is a 2017 Algerian movie, directed by Bahïa Bencheikh-El-Fegoun. with a runtime of 75 minutes.

Overview

Dream Fragments is an Algerian poetic documentary that captures a country suspended between despair and fragile hope. Algeria — a land of immense cultural and economic richness — is portrayed at a moment of collective uncertainty, shadowed by a troubling wave of suicides reverberating through the heart of society. Images of the coast and the sea flow into one another with the disorienting grace of a Fata Morgana, the film's structure mirroring the shifting, unstable ground on which Algerian society finds itself. A lyrical and unsettling work that resists easy narrative, offering instead a visual and emotional impression of a nation at a crossroads.

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