Abderrahmane Bouguermouh

Abderrahmane Bouguermouh was born on 25 February 1936 in Ouzellaguen, in Kabylia, to a father who was a schoolteacher and a mother who could not read and knew the Kabyle songs by heart. He did his secondary studies in Sétif, where he witnessed the repression of May 1945, became close in 1957 to Mouloud Mammeri and in 1960 entered the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. Back in Algeria in 1963, he took part in the creation of the national cinema centre, was removed from it the following year for his ideas, had a medium-length film in Berber refused and then worked for television. He died in Algiers on 3 February 2013.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Forgotten HillLa Colline oubliéeAbderrahmane Bouguermouh · 1996Cinema