Arezki Metref

Director

Writer and film director from Kabylia, Arezki Metref is a graduate from the Political Studies Institute of Alger. He started his career as a jounalist in 1972 and writes for L’Unité, Révolution Africaine, El Moudjahid, Algérie Actualité in particular. In 1993, he becomes editor-in-chief of Ruptures, a weekly publication he founded in collaboration with Tahar Djaout et Abdelkrim Djaad.

After Djaout’s assassination a few months later, Arezki Metref moves to France and will not return to Algeria before 2001. In France, he writes for The Guardian, Autrement, Maghreb-Machrek, Panoramique and Politis. He gives lectures on regular basis in France and abroad and has published essays on Algeria, as well as plays, short stories and poems. He has also started painting in 2003 and has exhibited his work in 2004.

 

 

 

Films (only in French)

At Yani, paroles d’argent (documentary, 52 minutes)

Le plateau de la pluie (report, 13 mn)

Poems (only in French)

Mourir à vingt ans, Éditions Caractères, Paris, 1974

Bonne année ou les joies perfides, Éditions du Stencil, Alger, 1977 (in collaboration with Abdelmadjid Kaouah)

Iconoclaste et riveraine, dessins de Tibouchi, Éditions de l’Orycte, Paris, 1986

Abat-jour, préface de Jean Pélégri, illustrations de Claude-Henri Bartoli

Sinbad, émeutier ; suivi de L’Évanescence de Tin Hinan, illustrations de Tala M’loult et Arezki Metref, Domens, Pézenas, 2004

Promethée, l’amour, dessins de Hamid Tibouchi, Domens, Pézenas,2009

Novels (only in French)

Quartiers consignés, Algérie Littérature / Action, n° 2, Marsa éditions, Paris, juin 1996.

Douar, une saison en exil, Domens, Pézenas, 2006 (ISBN 2915285306).

Roman de Kabylie ou le livre des ancêtres, Éditions Sefraber, 2010.

Plays (only in French)

Priorité au basilic, préface d’Abdelkrim Djaad, illustrations de Dilem,Domens, Pézenas, 1997
[diffusé sur France-Culture le 23 mars 1998, créé en juin 1999 à Paris au théâtre Les Déchargeurs et repris à Avignon la même année].

La Nuit du doute, préface de Nourredine Saadi, illustration d’Ali Silem, Domens, Pézenas, 1997

Postscriptum à La nuit du doute

L’Amphore, préface de Marie-Joëlle Rupp, Domens, Pézenas, 2002 [créé à Confluence à Paris en novembre 2002].

L’Agonie du sablier, préface de Belkacem Tatem, illustrations de Denis Martinez, Domens, Pézenas, 2003
[créé au théâtre de la Passementerie en 1999].

L’Intuition du désert

La Fenêtre du vent

Essays (only in French)

Algérie, Chroniques d’un pays blessé, préface de Denis Sieffert, illustrations de Dilem, Domens, Pézenas, 1998

Algérie, la vérité mais pas toute la vérité (chroniques 1997-2002), Domens, Pézenas, 2002

Kabylie Story, Casbal Éditions, Alger, 2005.

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A day at the Soleil - French Trailer

A morning like so many others at Le Soleil café in Paris's 20th arrondissement. A mythical place at the heart of the Belleville-Ménilmontant district's combined immigrant, working-class and revolutionary memories, Le Soleil has undergone a transformation. Its terrace has become a meeting place for the neighborhood's "bobos". In the course of a final day of palaver before its definitive closure, Le Soleil will see the last witnesses to the short and long history of Algerian immigration to France cross paths. A woman, men, workers, intellectuals, writers, musicians, shopkeepers, all will speak, some about their childhood in the war, others about their political, trade union and cultural struggles. The struggles that have punctuated the troubled history of relations between France and Algeria over the past sixty years. These are poignant and sometimes funny accounts, enlightened by historians and other specialists in the field.

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20 years after being exiled for political violence, an Algerian writer comes back to the Soleil. In this cafe of the 20th district of Paris, he is looking for material to write a book: a story of immigrants through the cafes. A morning just like any other at the cafe “Le Soleil” of the 20th district of Paris. A renown place for the memory of immigrants, workers and revolutionary of the Belleville-Ménilmontant neighborhood. This cafe spirituality now changed : it’s now filled with the new rich inhabitants of the neighborhood.

      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      

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