Jusqu’à la fin des temps
PREMIÈRE CANADIENNE
Sélection officielle – Festival international du film de Dubai 2017
At Sidi Boulekbour, the marabout watching over the dead souls, life goes on.
The faithfuls wait for the Ziara, time of the year during which the families come to visit their dead ones.
For Ali, the seventy-year-old self-effaced gravedigger, this Ziara was not supposed to be different from any other, but this time JOHER, in here sixties, arrives to visit her sister’s grave.
Wanting to rest beside her sister, Joher , decides to organize her own funeral alone before her death.
She then asks her new friend Ali for some help, skeptical at first, Ali is afraid his refusal would drive Joher away from him.
During her three days of pilgrimage, Ali and Joher learn to discover each other timidly. But joher is reluctant to let herself go to this new feeling at her age.
The cemetery becomes the theater of a platonic love story; bringing life to this place of death.
Yasmine Chouikh
Born in 1982 in Algiers, Yasmine Chouikh studied human arts and sciences and graduated in psychology.
She worked as a cultural journalist in a daily newspaper « l’Auten- tique » in 2004 and in 2005 she joined the Algerian National televi- sion « EPTV » hosting a program about cinema.
She directed two short films, « The Door » in 2006 and « the Djinn » in 2010 and a tv series «Studio 27» in 2015 and her first feature film «Until the end of time » in 2016 She produced a set of 8 shorts films «Once upon a time, the Casbah» directed by Yamina Bachir.
She was the art director of the Taghit International Short Film Fes- tival (Algeria) from 2009 to 2012
She was in charge of short films at the international Arab Film Fes- tival of Oran, Algeria from 2008 to 2011.