Presentation of the film Nnuba by Sònia Kessi, and the project "Cinéma et mémoire", a self-management experience for the training and dissemination of Arab cinemas in Algeria, from which the film and Sonia Kessi, filmmaker, were born.

Nnuba is the name given to a very old social organisation of women's mutual aid, which consists of taking turns grazing the village's livestock. The film deals with this practice established by the shepherds of a village in Bouzeguene, in the high mountains of the Kabylia (Algeria). Songs, confidences, poems, stories of life, laughter and tears punctuate and accompany this pastoral activity, where life and death coexist, celebrate and reconcile.  

By Mostra de Cinema Àrab i Mediterrani de Catalunya/SODEPAU

Sònia Kessi: born in 1982 in At Fereac, a village in the mountains of La Cabília. Sonia has been known for years for her photographic work. It was after studying economics that she decided to buy a sheep and to go out more often to the countryside with the shepherdesses of her village. She started a photographic work entitled "La Nnuba des Bergères". Each photo reveals people and situations that look at us. Far from folklore, she invites us to put with her the seeds of a detached look at ourselves. Sonia Kessi has also studied modern and classical French literature. To earn her living, she works as a civil servant in Bouzgane, cultivates her vegetable garden and raises sheep.

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