The Winds of the Aures

The Winds of the Aures (Arabic: ريح الاوراس, translit. Rih al awras, French: Le Vent des Aurès) is a 1967 Algerian war film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Work.^[1] It was also entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.^[2]

The Winds of the Aures
Directed by	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Written by	Tewfik Fares Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Starring	Keltoum
Edited by	Hamid Djellouli Liazid Khodja
Release date	1967 (1967)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Algeria
Languages	Arabic French

Cast

• Keltoum as Mother
• Mohamed Chouikh as Lakhdar
• Hassan Hassani (as Hassan El-Hassani)
• Thania Timgad
• Mustapha Kateb
• Omar Tayare

Restoration

The Winds of the Aures will be restored by the World Cinema Project through the African Film Heritage Project initiative.^[3]

References

1. "Festival de Cannes: The Winds of the Aures". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
2. "5th Moscow International Film Festival (1967)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
3. Page, Thomas (10 November 2017). "Martin Scorsese leads effort to save lost African cinema". CNN. Cable News Network. Retrieved 12 November 2017.

External links

• The Winds of the Aures at IMDb
• Le Vent Des Aurés at AllMovie
• Winds of Aures at Rotten Tomatoes