RÉVOLUTION ZENDJ

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  • Director: Tariq Teguia
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Duration: 134'
  • Year of production: 2013
  • Country: Algeria
A report on communal clashes in the south of the country leads an Algerian journalist on the trail of the Zendj uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate from the 8th to the 9th century in Iraq. Under the pretext of investigating the state of the "Arab nation", he travels to Beirut, which for decades embodied the struggles and hopes of the Arab world, and then to the swamps of Mesopotamia, in southern Iraq.

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Tariq Teguia

After studying philosophy in France (DEA in Philosophy Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France, PhD in aesthetics on the work of photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France) Tariq Teguia directed three feature-length fiction films as well as several shorts. In parallel, he has been pursuing photographic work for many years and regularly gives film courses in different universities in Europe (Master 2 Creative Documentary, Ardèche Images, HEAD/Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva, Switzerland etc.).