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It is surprising that Algeria, a country that suffered the worst atrocities of a colonial war, has not yet produced films and debates directly dealing with it. Some films have certainly shown characters that suffered, either at the individual level or at the group level, but the focus on colonial violence has paradoxically forgotten those who suffered it. The recent debate within Algeria on torture committed by the French army has mainly denounced it as a crime against a country, rather than recognize it as harm and suffering experienced by individuals. In Algeria, suffering has still to be problematized and acknowledged as such.
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Hadj-Moussa, R. (2014). The Past’s Suffering and the Body’s Suffering: Algerian Cinema and the Challenge of Experience. In: Hadj-Moussa, R., Nijhawan, M. (eds) Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426086_7
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