Karim Moussaoui's 'Les Jours d'avant' awarded at 30th 'Vues d'Afrique' Festival in Canada

Algerian director Karim Moussaoui's movie "Les Jours d'avant" (The day before) won the Best Short Film prize at the 30th International Film Festival "Vues d'Afrique" which wrapped up Sunday in Montreal (Canada), organizers announced Monday on the website of the event. Directed in 2013, the 47 minutes Algerian- French co-production, featuring the story of two teenagers, Yamina and Jaber (Souhila Mallem and Mehdi Ramdani) in Algiers city in the early 1990s, competed among six short and medium-length films from Tunisia, democratic Republic of Congo and Mali. Also, Algerian Mohamed Zaoui's documentary film "Back to Montluc", recounting the prison term in France Mustapha Boudina, sentenced to death during the Algerian war of independence, received, for its part, a special award in the selection of "Human Rights." Organized this year in three Canadian cities (Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa), "Vues d'Afrique" festival has become, in 30 years of existence, a rendezvous for African and Caribbean cinema in Canada.