Zaoui’s Return to Montluc wins Golden Dagger Prize at Mascat Film Festival

Documentary “Return to Montluc” by Algerian director Mohamed Zaoui relating the prison term of Mustapha Boudina, a survivor of the guillotine during the national liberation war, won the Golden Dagger at the International Film Festival of Mascat in Oman, said Sunday the documentary’s director. Produced and directed in 2012, this 62-minute film documentary includes a series of testimonies by French politicians, lawyers historians and former prisoners of Fort Montluc in Lyon (France)  who gave their views regarding the French colonial system and the colonial authorities’ refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the Algerian people’s fight to regain their independence. Mustapha Boudina, President of Former Sentenced to Death Association, condemned twice to death during the national liberation war, tells the story of the inhuman ordeal he endured with his cellmates. “Return to Montluc” was awarded twice in Algiers as the best documentary film at the 4th Film Ponorama Festival in November 2013 and Mostaganems’ Film Festival in December 2013.