Two films revisit the images and testimony of October 1961

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Olivier Barlet examines how Jacques Panijel’s Octobre à Paris and Yasmina Adi’s Ici on noie les Algériens approach the repression of Algerian demonstrators in Paris. His review considers testimony, language, reconstruction and archival images. The films feature in an Algerian cinema programme in Paris, while Panijel’s documentary returns to French cinemas on October 21.

Summarised from Africultures · Olivier Barlet. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.