Ān Rū-yi Dīgarān: Persian 1403

Algiers, city center, the beginning of the 21st century. Adel and Yasmine, brother and sister, were close as children. They have grown up, and changed, and they can no longer talk to each other. They love each other in silence, between an acrimonious mother and an elder stranded there with her family, who paints all day long as one invents an elsewhere. At the foot of the building, from the top of the balconies and right up to their homes, we observe them, we comment: they are different, too beautiful, and perhaps a little too free, it's unbearable. In a society restricted by conventions, in a country that is more easily left than loved, simply being yourself is a luxury to which young people are not entitled...