Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: Algeria competing with Bouchouchi’s “Le Puits”.

Algeria is represented by Lotfi Bouchouchi’s “Le Puits” (The Well), a 90-mn feature film relates the story of a village in southern Algeria during the colonial period, and how its inhabitant, particularly women and children were besieged by the French Army and deprived from drinking water.

The film won several awards, including the prize for best feature film at the 9^thMuscat International Film Festival in the Sultanate of Oman, and four prizes at the 31^stAlexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in Egypt, as well as the Grand Prize at the 5^thMaghreb Film Festival of Oujda  in Morocco, and recently the prize for best film director at the 9^thInternational Film Festival of Oran, Algeria

Source: Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: Algeria competing with Bouchouchi’s “Le Puits” – World News Report – EIN News