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Yasmina Adi


Yasmina Adi

Yasmina Adi

Biography

Yasmina Adi worked as a press officer before she first took on an assistant director’s role in 1997. Since then she has made two remarkable documentaries on French colonial history. For L’autre 8 mai 1945 – Aux origines de la guerre d´Algérie she returned to the region where her Algerian family came from. She found contemporary witnesses there who told her how the French colonial authorities had massacred thousands of Algerian civilians on the day the war in Europe ended. Once France was liberated from fascism they demanded freedom for their country too and carried Algerian flags alongside French ones in the processions in the cities of Sétif and Constantine. That is why French settlers shot into the crowds.
Her new film Ici on noie les Algerièns – 17 octobre 1961 shows that the war prosecuted by the French colonial power in an attempt to crush Algerian independence was also pursued with great brutality against Algerian migrants in France who were FLN sympathisers.


Filmography

L´autre 8 Mai 1945 : Direction

Ici on noie les algériens (2011): Screenplay, Direction