كلمة المخرج

ملاحظة المنتج

For this project, director Safia Kessas has been engaged in an introspective process, gradually releasing her "I" voice and opening up to her personal and family history, to share a feeling and a story with universal consequences: the blurring of memories. 

In this film project, she questions her first name, Safia, which she received as a tribute to her aunt, who died in Algeria, and sets off in search of the truth about her aunt's death. In this way, she unravels the story of her family, which is interwoven with the larger history of Algeria and the struggle for independence. Safia Kessas takes us on a quest for her mixed identity, between Belgium, France and Algeria, and helps us to feel and understand the memory blurring that accompanies it and that she is going to clear up, a heritage that is little or never spoken of, resulting among other things from colonial traumas. 

This film, which takes its roots in the Algerian war, can be seen as a much broader echo for all those who, in their own, their families and loved ones’ history, have been confronted with colonization. Deep traces remain and are passed on from one generation to the next. But it is possible to become aware of them and free oneself from them. In "In the name of Safia'', a possible liberation can come from the transmission of local beliefs that remain alive. This is one of the ways to explore to overcome colonial traumas.

فيلموغرافيا المنتج

Isabelle Truc founded IOTA PRODUCTION in 2000. Since then, this dynamic and persevering producer has produced and co-produced around 90 films, including shorts and features as well as documentaries and animated features. Her speciality: discovering, developing and supporting filmmakers and projects from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Belgium). Some of the films she has produced have won awards at major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto and even the Oscars in LA. “Our heart beats to the rhythm of films with a relevant and strong point of view and a coherent and bold artistic approach”.