Homeland
- director: Mohamed Hamidi
- actor: Fatsah Bouyahmed Malik Bentalha
- writer: Alain-Michel Blanc Mohamed Hamidi
Synopsis:
26-year-old law student Farid has to go to Algeria to try and save his father’s house.
His discovers a country where he has never set foot and is gradually won over by a gallery of extraordinary characters whose humor and straightforwardness go straight to his heart. Among them his cousin, a quick-witted wheeler-dealer who dreams of making it to France. [Synopsis courtesy of Cannes]
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