Algiers, where you only die once | M6 | Zone Interdite

Their names are Yasmine, Riad, Ghania and Karim, they all are twenty years old and they live in Algiers. We followed these young Algerians who are part of what has been baptized the generation of terrorism.” Their adolescence has been lived during a ten-year civil war which has left 100,000 dead, lived between assassinations and bombs. During our film shoot, the newspapers continued listing the litany of massacres. Terror…. However, each one of them, in his own way, lives as if nothing was wrong. Whether it’s Karim, unemployed, who takes refuge in rap to recount the unhappiness of youth, or Yasmine, Miss Algiers, who doesn’t wear a veil, or Ghania, a very popular radio moderator who plays the songs of singers who have been assassinated by armed Islamic groups.”