Impulso

The American armed forces perceived the potential benefits of supporting the production of war films when American cinema was still in its early days. Primed during the First World War, intense during the Second World War, relations between the studios and the armed forces slackened during the Vietnam War and were re-activated under Reagan. The success of "Top Gun" opened the way for a new co-operation. Since the 80’s, Hollywood has focussed on past wars, installing its fictions in military bases, aboard submarines and aircraft carriers that the armed forces have generously made available to the studios. In exchange, their experts intervene in the screenplays. Two hundred are submitted to them each year. Through this co-operation, each side is pursuing its own objectives: for the studios, to produce successful films for the least amount of money; for the Pentagon, to improve its image and create interest in careers in the military. Observing these relationships exposes the convulsions and paradoxes of the rise in American power in the 20th century.…

In the heart of Kabylia, Chinese workers build a city on farmlands. Right next to the new housing complex, Kabyle peasants, gathered since 1962 in their small kingdom made of family houses, refuse to leave. Madame Li, the chinese interpreter of the building site, navigate, in French, between these two worlds stuck beneath the sun of Oued Falli. She could finally retire in a few month. But, when the worksite threatens the Kabyle village, the tension rises suddenly. Portrait of a torn land, this single setting beneath the open sky confronts the forgotten voices of Algeria.…