NVICinema: Nahla

Film Screening: Nahla

A film by Farouk Beloufa | Fiction | Algeria | 1979 | 114 min | In Arabic with French Subtitles

A classic of Algerian cinema, "Nahla" is the only surviving feature by director Farouk Beloufa. Set in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war in Lebanon. He is linked to Maha, Hind, Raouf and Michel and witnesses the construction of the myth of Nahla, a singer adored by the Arab Population. Shot in Lebanon by an Algerian director during a moment of regional upheaval, Nahla captures the radical energies of 1970s Maghrebi-Levantine solidarity. The film features a score composed by the iconic Ziad al-Rahbani whose brief on-screen cameo deepens the film’s tension through symbolic imagery and fragmented storytelling.

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