Rome Rather than You

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The Carriageworks: Main Auditorium
15 November • 6.30pm

This is a film of real importance. Described by Director Teguia as a 'slow-motion road movie...without guilt, about the simple joy of being alive', this is a totally uncompromising and daring film about Zina and Kamel, a young couple in Algiers living amidst warfare between government forces and Islamist opposition. Together they drive around quiet streets, wandering through empty buildings, across an urban desert, looking for a way to get to another country and facing corrupt authorities with beautiful defiance. Finding some passports near a corpse, they just might make it...

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