The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
La Zerda et les chants de l'oubli (الزردة وأغاني النسيان)
In 1982, on the 20th anniversary of Algerian independence, the Algerian author Assia Djebar released her second film, The Zerda, and the Songs of Forgetting, a film that digs deep into the French colonization of the Greater Maghreb and the hauntings of anti-colonial struggles.