The Mountaineer's Daughters
How to transmit an experience? Wiame Awres questions the history of her mother Turquia, former dancer, and her grand-mother Khadidja El Djeblia, resistance fighter during the Algerian War.
How to transmit an experience? Wiame Awres questions the history of her mother Turquia, former dancer, and her grand-mother Khadidja El Djeblia, resistance fighter during the Algerian War.
How to transmit an experience? Wiame Awres questions the history of her mother Turquia, former dancer, and her grand-mother Khadidja El Djeblia, resistance fighter during the Algerian War.
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
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