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Afric Hotel

Afric Hotel

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 12, 2011

Runtime

0h 54m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

100%

Original Title

Afric Hotel

Production Companies

Fugues de Barbarie

Director

Nabil Djedouani

Description

In the furnace of Algiers, the camera follows and accompanies Ibrahim, Adam, and Ismael, originally from sub-Saharan Africa, in an irregular situation who live in this hotel with the predestined name. They live from odd jobs. One is an elevator operator in a building, the second is a shoemaker and the third works in the construction sector. The other side of immigration from sub-Saharan Africa. Behind the statistics hide people, bodies waiting to be able to start another life elsewhere. A hotel thus becomes a transit point in which stories and hopes mingle, a place which seems suspended in time and space. A static journey waiting for another to begin.