"Bye." " May God protect you!" "My name is Omar and I'm 9 years old." "I was born in a big hospital." "In France." "I'm French." "My father has a small house with a large field around." "That's why he invited his brother Said and friends from El-Ouricia in Algeria fleeing poverty and war." "Now, there are..." "I don't know how many families living here." "It's like a village." "We call it... the Chaâba." "Farid, come here!" "Saida, get me some water!" "Hurry!" "..." "Go!" "Nadia wait for me, we want to help you." "Go home!" "Go home!" "Till tonight, Emma!" "Children!" "Assemble..." "The kid from Chaâba" "Come on Bobby, down!" "Down!" "Bobby stay here and watch over the women." "And you too." "Bye!" "Come in kids!" "Selim, close the door please." "Mr. Bouchaoui, I asked you to close the door, not to monitor the playground." "Please!" "Sit down!" "Selim, since you are still standing read a lesson about politeness." ""Lesson in morals." ""To my parents," ""my teachers" ""my politeness" ""will tell my res..." ""respect and..." ""my love."" " Very well." "I didn't ask you to sit down." "What do you do and say to your parents, at night before going to bed?" "Teacher, teacher, teacher!" "..." " How long I gotta wait, Selim?" "Francis!" "Before going to bed, I have to kiss my parents and tell them "Good night"." "That's very good Francis, very good." "If I do that to my father, he calls the police." "Let's play football!" "Let's play football!" "Are we going to play football, Sélim?" "Make a pass!" "Hello everyone." "Come and have a coffee!" "No time, I have clients to see." "Hey Said!" " What?" "Daddy!" "I don't like this, Said." "You make us take too many risks." "Your butchery will get us into trouble!" "All these slaughters will condemn us..." "Don't worry, brother." "Soon, I'll have the money to buy a real butcher shop!" "Look... here in Chaâba there are families." "We are all linked." "And if one of us loses himself, all the others will be lost." "Never forget that Said!" "I won't forget!" "Daddy." "Where's your brother?" " I don't know." "Go, go and get him!" "And after that you come home and work." "Can I first play a bit of football?" "First you'll work!" "Go!" "Farid!" "Farid!" "Farid!" "Farid!" "Did you see Farid?" " No." "Dirty dog!" "Take it easy, children." "Daddy, Daddy!" "Farid wants to hit me, Dad." "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "And you come help us right away." "Come on!" "Hey, don't touch my bread!" "Give him his bread!" "Give him his bread!" "That's my bread." "What's the problem?" "You're crazy!" "They don't eat, they guzzle!" "Look what you're doing!" "Hey Omar!" "Hey Omar, where you going?" "Sit down and eat!" "I have to go to the toilet." "Hey Omar!" "Beware of demons!" "What you got?" "What's the matter son?" "Demons!" "Demons!" "He's all wet!" "Come here!" "He smells like piss!" " Piss?" "I don't believe it." "Demons have pissed on your head?" "Who is it?" "It's me..." "I swear, I haven't seen him!" "I wanted to empty my bucket in the toilet." "And he showed up like a rat in the night." "It doesn't matter, Bouchaoui." "Have a coffee with us." "Why didn't you light the lamp?" "Because it attracts demons." "Who told you that?" " Farid did." "Fuck!" "Pick it up right now!" "Take a seat Bouchaoui!" "You take that." "Return the coffee." "So what?" "It's terrible, I didn't see him." "What do you want?" "Children..." "He jumped!" "I thought:" "What is this?" "A demon, a real one, which crept..." "Holy Bouchaoui, you really make me laugh." "He came like a snake." "And you weren't afraid when you saw him?" "Tell me about it!" "These kids make me crazy!" "Real devils." "They make me sick!" "When we were in El-Ouricia, we respected old people." "We were worse than locusts!" "It's okay!" "Have faith in God!" "Get some sleep." "Mom, Dad." "What do you want, Omar?" "Why aren't you sleeping?" "Why is Ali crying?" "He's all alone here." "He's homesick." "Don't think about that, you're still sleeping." "But you, you didn't sleep at all." "For me it doesn't matter." "I work with my hands, not my head." "For you it's different." "You have to succeed in life." "You have to be the best in school." "Better than the French." "And for that..." "You need to sleep a lot." "Come on.... come on." "Nadia, come here!" "Take the bucket!" "Calm down!" "That's enough!" "Ah, you don't want to stop?" "For two hours she occupies the wash place and she annoys us!" "Dirty liar!" "Rotten bitch!" "I hope your shack will burn!" "Let death take you in your sleep!" "You talk like whores in front of your children!" "You have no shame!" "Go home and ask Allah for forgiveness." "Nadia, come!" "What's up?" "Chaâba's water is not yours." "Do you understand?" "Omar?" "Hey, Omar?" "Are you sleeping?" "No." "I try to see things." "With closed eyes?" "That's because it's in my book." "And is it nice?" " Yeah!" "However, I don't understand all the words." "But I find it beautiful." "Do you want me to tell you?" "Yeah" "If you want." "So, you see?" "The hero of the story writes books." "And there are villains who locked him up in jail... for a year just because he wrote books he shouldn't have written." "And every day, the guards came." "They put a gun to his head and said:" ""Today we shall kill you!"" ""Today we shall kill you!"" "And finally, they never did." "It was just to make him mad." "But he, you know, did never go mad." "because throughout the time he was in prison, to not be afraid, he had closed his eyes." "He had imagined a different world." "That's the story told by the book." "Will you work much longer?" "I don't work, now I'm reading." "It's the same." " No, it's not the same." "Hacène." "If you want, you can go to my hut near the river." "Come on!" "You hand me the bucket, Nadia?" "You bum!" "Go, go to school!" "Get out!" "She's crazy, she thinks we have school today." "I just had time to take my bow to go hunting." "It's okay, I've got bread and sugar." "What is this?" "A TV." "I found it behind the embankment." "If you want, it will belong to us both." "Is that true?" "I never had pets." "My father told me:" ""If you take a dog" ""it is you who goes away."" "Are they really ours?" "It's only normal for friends." "Omar!" "Hurry up Omar!" "Hurry!" "Farid and Zohra already went!" "Hurry up!" "Make way, brats!" "Get off, you could get killed!" "Do I have to tell you in Arabic or what?" "Go!" "Out!" "Pf-ff, one more or less..." "Go on Ben!" "No, I first found it!" "A wheel!" "A wheel!" "Farid, look!" "Hey Omar!" "Go home for treatment!" "So you won't get tetanus." "And you'll die!" "Go!" "Hey Harcène, your shoes are all rotten." "You say that because you're jealous." "Get this, little shit!" "Farid!" "Farid!" "Farid!" "What is it?" "Hey, give me a piece of bread." "So what?" "It is Rabah!" "He wants us to chase the whores away." "The bitches!" "Why?" "Do you remember the last time?" "They threw stones at us." "Well that's why now Babar says it is war." "Oh how pretty she is, look at that!" "Five there!" "Ten!" "The others go with me!" "Down, down!" "Go!" "He took out his penis." "He took out his penis, look!" "Said!" "Come on, I need to talk to you." "This is good my son, go!" "Put the sheep in the butchery." "Quick!" "You still want to talk to me about the butchery?" "Your butchery, you know what I think." "I want to talk to you about our sons, Omar and Hacène." "Go ahead, speak!" " Come..." "They are old enough, now." "We must think about their circumcision." "That's what I think, Bouzid." "So what?" "Look, I've been thinking..." "You know, a party is expensive..." "Together, we could organize a big party..." "And we pay half and half?" "I agree." "Okay." "We only need to set a date." "Why wait?" "Let's do it the end of the month." "Not!" "No!" "The end of the month..." "I won't have any money." "Don't worry about it, brother!" "You pay me when you can." "OK?" "Thank you." "This is your idea!" "French Language" "Omar!" "What's up?" " Come here." "I didn't do anything." " Come here, I say!" "Sit down!" "My son, it's time for you to become a true Muslim." "And a man, too." "No Dad, look!" "I'm still very small." "Shut up and listen to me!" "I spoke with Serik." "We shall soon bring a godfather for you and for Hacène." "And if I don't want to become an adult?" "It's not my decision, it's Allah's." "Hey, Omar!" "Snip snip." "You'll see." "It will be a great party." "Saida, where you going?" "Bring the plate to Nadia's mom." " It's OK!" "Hey, Hacène!" "This is for you!" " Thanks." "This is couscous with pieces of mutton." "Wait a minute." "Here, give this to Zidouma and thank her." "Did your father tell you?" "Yeah." "It was Rabah who told me." "Saturday we'll be guillotined." "Snip." "You know what that means "guillotined"?" "Yeah." "It has nothing to do with us." "It's what they do in France to the wicked." "They cut off their head." "With a sword?" "No." "With a machine." "A machine?" "Yes." "But for us it's not the same." "For us it'll be a big party." "Yeah." "Come on, wake up!" "It's six o'clock." " Well, I don't care." "Come on, move!" "We go to the market, go!" " I don't want to go!" "Mom, Farid hits me." "Come on my boy, get up!" "What about that?" " Okay, okay." "Well." "You must show that Bouzid's children work as hard as those of Said." "Wait!" "Wait..." "Above all do not say anything to your father." "Oh, it's disgusting, the meat stinks!" "Now what is this?" "It's already 6:20." "It's Omar's fault." "He didn't want to move." " Hi Hacène, you're okay?" "Where are you going now?" "To the market, why?" "They're too young, your brothers." "No one wants to see them work." "You won't have time to watch them." "It's my turn now to earn money for my mother." "They're here just to help me!" "Well okay, after all it's your problem." "Come on, let's go!" "4 x 5, 20." "6 x 6?" " 36." "9 x 8?" "That one I never remember." "Sixty..." " Wait, don't tell me, I know." "9 x 8, sixty... ten... 72." "It doesn't matter, start over." "What?" "What happens?" "He doesn't know?" "Sure he knows." "He just forgot one." ""It doesn't matter"." " On the contrary, it's very important!" "You must know everything at school!" "Everything." "It's because I don't like numbers." "It's words I like." "So what?" "So what?" "I'm waiting for the lesson." "3 x 4?" "12." " 6 x 5?" "30." "9 x 8?" "9 x 8, 9..." "Come!" " Wait, I'm thinking." "Sixty... 62." "And that's it." "This is good." "It's good?" "Yeah." "Let me see the paper!" "Hurry!" "This is good." "It's right my son, it's good." "Omar!" "72, looser!" "Your brother is right." "You'll catch your death with those rotten shoes." "Don't wait for me!" " I'll catch up!" "I'll tell Dad that you do as the French." " Don't tell, Omar!" "It's not my fault, if you put lipstick on." "But don't cry, Zohra." "It's a joke, you know that I won't say anything." "Let's see." "You're nice like that." "Is that true?" "If I say so, then it's true." "Wait." "Wait." "Let's go." "You make me revise math?" " Okay." "4 x 5?" " 20 5 x 5?" " 25 9 x 8?" "9 x 8... 9 x 8..." "Time's up." "Put your copies on the side of your desk." "Get out your notebooks." "We'll write a dictation." "Hacène, please." ""The disguise"." "This is the title: "The disguise"." "You go to the line." ""Every year at carnival"" ""Anne went up to the attic"" ""Anne went up to the attic"" "Period." ""She chose an old-fashioned dress"" ""folded by grandmother"" ""She finished dressing up"" ""by wearing an old hat"" ""an old hat"" ""hat"" ""that... "" "You stay in the playground, I'll get the concierge." "What's up?" "Tell me where Omar is, the son of Bouzid and stop your fuss!" "Over there?" "The one who's over there?" "I'll wait outside." "Tell me..." "Are you Omar, the son of Bouzid from El-Ouricia?" "Don't you recognize me?" "I'm also from El-Ouricia and I live with you in the Chaâba." "Answer me." "It seems that you're a good student?" "Can you help Nasser, just for the tests?" "What do you think?" "We're all Arabs!" "You help him and he helps you." "Do you agree?" "Maybe I can ask the teacher if Nasser can sit next to me?" "Why ask the teacher?" "Let him copy, please." "My poor son knows nothing." "I can't do it like that." "It's cheating." "How is it cheating?" "That's not cheating!" "He understands nothing!" "Show him, he is a brother to you." "Please." "Let Allah grant you long life." " No!" "I accept to help him." "But not like this." "It's forbidden." "And it's also useless." "I'll kill you!" "Zohra, come help me!" "Hey Omar, wait for me!" "What's up?" "I'm coming with you, that's all." "Wow, look!" "Wow, I can't believe it." "Where did you steal the moped?" "My father gave it to me." "What do you think?" "I work with him now." " And school?" "School is over for me." "Come, I will go on a little ride." "What are you doing here?" "Just a ride with Rabah." "He works with Said now." " Don't go!" "Why?" "I've done nothing wrong!" " You'll do what I tell you." "Hey, you!" "Well?" "You make your son work?" "He doesn't do anything at school!" "He learns a trade instead of hanging out." "Butcher shit!" "How could I have let you set it up?" "Don't forget that this is what pays for your son's circumcision." "I will...!" "Don't worry, I'll give you your money back." "All your money!" "Never mind the money." "Let me work in peace!" "That's all!" "There they are, the rats, there they are." " There they are." "There they are...." "There's a big one." "Catch it, catch it." "You shouldn't have insulted his mother." "In the name of the Almighty..." "Show me that!" "All is okay." "And you..." "They are still small." "What's your name?" "Hacène." "And you?" "Omar." "You're young, but soon you'll be men." "You must be a man, my son." "Be a man!" "Stop moving or I'll cut it all off!" "For you my son." "It's a book." "Thank you Dad, thank you." "The lady in the store told me to take it." "Omar!" " Yeah?" "You see?" "And you?" " The same." "20000 leagues under the sea" ""Schooner"" ""Schooner"" ""Schooner"" ""Small fast ship"" ""Schooner, small fast ship" "Schooner, small fast ship"" ""Schooner, small fast ship"" "Where are you going, Dad?" "To the yard." "I'll be back." "Wait, I'm coming with you." " No, you stay in bed today." "But I've no pain anymore Dad, I swear." "I'm a man now." "So if you're a man, it's okay." "You take that." "It's good Omar, I can manage." " Wait, I fill the can." "When I'm done!" "They're back!" "They're back!" " Who?" "The whores, they came back, I tell you." "Wait for me." "Omar!" "Omar!" "Fucking pig!" "Come here so I can tear out your eyes!" "Go!" " Yeah!" "Cease fire!" "Hey!" "Hold on!" "I have something to offer." "I have kids like you." "Why don't you stop pissing me off?" "Here you are." "So now you let me work, huh?" "No problem!" "Now we'll protect you." "Go!" "Is Hacène there?" "I don't know where Hacène is." "Look for him if you want!" "Hello uncle." "Hacène, what are you doing?" "I try to revise, but I can't, because of the noise." "Omar." " Yeah." "Are you sure Zohra has been feeding our fish?" "Yeah, you know Zohra." "I just went to see them." "I can't stop thinking about them." "Stop!" "You're pissing me off with your papers!" "Do your homework at school!" "Tomorrow are the tests." "Shut up!" "Let me listen to the radio!" "Get out!" "Out!" "Go play somewhere else with your books!" "You jackass!" "Mom!" "Mom!" "Where did you put my school clothes?" " There!" "But it's not possible." "They will never be dry tomorrow." "What for?" "They said: "You keep your tunic for ten days."" "Not for school, it isn't possible." " Why isn't it possible?" "Because..." "I won't go to school dressed like this!" "Oh, you don't want to go to school?" " No!" "You'll see if you don't go to school!" "Come here!" "Yes, I'll go to school." "It hurts." "I don't want to go." "Now sleep my little child, sleep." "Sit down and take a double sheet." "You're going to..." "Well!" "..." "Be careful!" "Sit down and take a double sheet." "The writing is on the following topic:" ""A day in the countryside during holidays."" "You have until the end of class." "Moral lesson:" "We have to be strong to raise our family and contribute to the greatness of France" "Selim, you heard the subject." "So you take a sheet." "Yeah, mister." "Yes sir." "You mustn't say "Yes sir" but "Yes, teacher."" "Fuck you." "What did you say?" " That you are always against me because I am an Arab." "That's what I said." "It has nothing to do with it." "Here you are in school and you have to respect your teacher." "That's all." "And I tell you it has to do with that." "You are racist." "How else can you explain that we Arabs are always last?" "You don't know what you say." "Omar is Arab, and he isn't last." "If you're last, it's because you're a lazy, that's all." "Anyhow, you are racist." "That's enough!" "I hate to do this, but... if you say another word, I expel you immediately." "I don't care!" "And my parents don't care either." "I guess your parents don't care about family allowances either?" "That's enough, take a sheet and get to work!" "Go away!" "So!" " So what?" "You're not an Arab, are you?" " Yes, I am an Arab." "You're not an Arab, I tell you!" "Of course I'm an Arab." "I tell you that you're not like us!" "The teacher is a dirty racist." "So if you were a true Arab, you should be last of the class too." "You agree?" "We should all be last of the class?" "Yeah." "Why are we the last?" " I don't know." "Asshole, you don't want us to copy off you, huh?" "At recess, why are you always hanging around the French, huh?" "Seems that you never stay with us?" "It's clear you've nothing to say." "Because it's true" "You have an Arab head like us, but..." "You'd rather be French." " No!" "Not true." "I don't want to fight with you because you're an Algerian." "But you should know whether you're with them or with us, huh?" "Come on, we don't talk with traitors." "Come on!" "Let's go!" "Come Hacène!" "Since you started working, I hardly see you anymore." "Work is work, right?" "Cousin, how's school?" "If only it was useful!" "Hello Ma'am!" "Hi kids." "Hey, I hope you didn't get here to annoy us, huh?" "No, today we come just like friends." " Ah that's nice." "Want a cigarette?" "No, I prefer money." "Take that!" "And for my friend?" "You have to share!" "As you wish." " Wait!" "You want to ruin me, right?" "It is not really money your friend is interested in, huh?" "Now, get out of there, I have to work!" "No problem, we'll calm the others." "What are you doing here?" "You're still spying on us?" "Take care of him, tell him to shut up!" "You don't speak and I don't speak." "Agree?" "It's okay." "Stop being mad!" "Look!" "I don't care about the money." "I give everything to Yuma." "I just would like to fuck her, that's all." "Your money!" "I don't care about that!" "Now what's going on with you?" "It's about school, right?" "You're scared for the tests?" "I don't care about school either." "What did you say there?" "Let me go!" "Never say you don't care about school!" "Anyway I say what I want!" "And why should I be the best at school?" "I didn't ask for it!" "And anyway, why wouldn't it be you?" "I never understood anything." "I sometimes don't understand anything either." "Yes, but for you it's not the same." "Why isn't it the same for me?" "I don't know." "Maybe you're smarter." "And furthermore I was born in Algeria." "It's not the same." "Maybe I don't remember much." "But there are things you can't forget." "When you opened your eyes, there was always the sun and the desert around." "When we went to France, it was like a dream." "A magic word "France"." "And I've always hated this damn country." "With this fucking mud everywhere all the time." "For you it's different." "You're at home here, you're French." "No, it's not true." "I'm also an Arab." "Of course you're an Arab." "It's not what I mean." "You're a French Arab." "French like the French in your class." "But the only difference is that you are poor, and in addition, they can call you "Dirty wog."" "This is why you need to be the best at school, and have a job like the French and a lot of money." "A "wog" who has a lot of money is no longer a "wog"." "He's a gentleman, that's all." "That's Dad's dream." "This is why he is so proud of you." "Daddy loves you too." "I know." "But I'll never have a better job than him." "And that makes him unhappy." "Do you understand?" "It doesn't matter." "Be good at school." "It's essential." "You'll understand the rest later." "Come on." "We have to go home." "Did you pass your tests?" "I don't know...." "I think so." "Don't worry." "I'm sure you passed them." "I'll be modest because I realize what's missing to make me perfect, everything that I don't know." "I'll start with returning your tests and rankings." "After that we'll finish the geography lesson we started last time." "First..." "First, Selim Bouchaoui." "Shared first with Nasser Bouaffia." "3rd, Kamel Benabdérak." "Benabdérézak, sir." "4th, Assen Kitab." "5th, Claude Saurat." "6th..." "Before last, Omar Kitab." "Very good, Omar." "The picture is for all your efforts." "Go on like this." "Thank you teacher." "Tomorrow you sit next to Francis." "Francis Rondet, the good last one." "Excellent work, as usual." "I've never had a picture like this." "What do you intend to do to me?" ""Very good work"." ""Smart and hardworking student"." "Sign there, Dad." "An "X"." "Now I'll go see the other families." "(Arabic)" "Very well my son." "Very well." "You know, Dad, Charlemagne was the king of France." "It was he who invented the school." "And... plenty of other things." "Come..." "let's talk." "I want to tell you something." "Sit!" "You see, my son?" " No Dad." "Let me talk about something serious." "You see my son?" "God is above everything." "It is Allah who guides the live of all." "Mine, yours, your teacher's." "And, what's his name..." "Salamane's." "Don't laugh at this." " I'm not laughing." "Do you think it's by chance that Salamane invented school?" "And that you, an Arab, are better than all the French?" "I don't know." "Allah, my son, it is Allah who leads us." "No one else." "Tomorrow you tell your teacher... to come home to eat couscous." "But it isn't possible, Dad." "You can't do that." "And why can't I?" "There's nothing wrong." "I'll buy a bottle of wine." "The French love Algerian wine." "No Dad, I assure you." "It isn't possible." "It's against school laws." "Where are you going?" "Outdoors." "Stay and talk a little with me." "I can't Dad." "It's Allah who guides my steps." "What will he say, Bouzid?" "Aren't you ashamed?" "Come here!" "Where are you going?" "Come here now!" "Hacène!" "Hacène!" "Go away!" "Fucking go!" "Come here!" "You come home now!" "Is this your work?" "Answer me!" "Omar is the first at school." "You've got zeros for everything." "Fucking son!" "Hey, Hacène, where you going?" "I'm going to school." "There's no school today, it's Thursday." "It's Thursday?" "Yeah." "Come with us, we'll go fishing." "Come on, Nasser!" "Your father did this to you?" "Come on!" ""I was interrupted by a violent noise" ""And had just enough time to put the notebook in the hiding place." ""The door that connects..." "Come on, Omar" "Go sleep." "I'll go sleep at once." "Dad!" "What else?" "I've finished the book." "Very well... it's very well." "It was beautiful, you know." "You tell me tomorrow." "Now switch off and go sleep." "So, Bobby." "Hush, Bobby, hush!" "I am better, Dad, better than the French, better than everyone." "I promise." "Get away from here, you fuck!" "Lazy-bone!" "Enter, children!" "You want to sit on which side?" "All right, Omar?" " Selim!" "You have two ears and one tongue:" "listen well and talk little." "Sit down." "Well." "Now, after having talked about hygiene so often, let's do a practical demonstration." "Take off your socks and lay them flat on your desk." "I will check the cleanliness of each." "This is no laughing matter." "Come on!" "Come on, children!" "Come on children, hurry up!" "Please." "Please." "Yes, very well." "Very good." "Very good too, except for the holes." "Ah, avoid nylon." "It prevents the respiration of your feet." "Yes, Omar, you have a problem?" "Sir, I don't think..." "But it's not for me I do that, Omar." "Cleanliness is an asset... without which you don't succeed." "It's important that all of you realize this." "Sit down." " Sir, you don't understand." "I think I was pretty clear." "Sit down and do what I ask you!" "But what are you doing?" "Are you sick or what?" "Answer me, Hacène I asked you a question!" "Answer me!" "Hacène!" " Just leave him!" "It's not the department of hygiene here!" " I am talking to Hacène." "Answer me!" "Hacène!" "Hacène." "Hacène." "It's me." "I'm getting in." "Don't come closer!" "Go away!" "Leave me alone!" "Stop!" "We'll go see my father." "He'll tell Said to not touch you." "I don't care about my father!" "Then what is it?" "I don't want to be guillotined!" "I want to die!" "You're too small to be guillotined." "That's not true." "I'm a man now!" "Go away, I tell you!" "It's not funny!" "Quick!" "Oh, shit!" "Who's the leader here?" "You slaughterhouses are illegal." "Where are they?" "Don't know." "Me not understand." "Sheep, butcher's, Squeak." "Not understand." "Well, it's always the same." "You understand French only when it suits you." "Search everywhere!" "Here I'm the leader." "It's not you." "We'll see." "I don't want to be guillotined." "What's happening here?" "Inspector, I caught them up there." "That's enough, huh!" "Ever since I caught them, he yells he doesn't want to be guillotined." "I don't want to be guillotined." "Will you shut up!" " Shut up kid." "Tell me where is the butchery and you'll not be guillotined." "It's nothing, sir." "This is my cousin, he's half crazy." "You came to arrest someone?" "No, it's not that bad." "We are just looking for the place where they kill sheep." "Maybe can you help us." "You see, fool?" "Yes, sir." "I know where it is." "It's my uncle who is the butcher." "So, you'll be a good boy." "You'll take me there." "No problem." "Go on Hacène!" "But where does he take them?" "He is going to show them!" "It's not my fault!" "Come on, take me some pictures." "Stand in front if you wish, we'll take your photo." "Hacène can come?" "Of course Hacène can come." "You see, no problem." "Attention children." "Don't move!" "Smile!" "Idiot!" "So, little brother?" "I thought they were here for Hacène." "Look, you know that your teacher didn't call the police?" "He even refused to see a doctor." "He took his car and went home." "Just like that." "Give me some coffee." "The police were here today." "The police?" "You mean here at home?" "Yes." "Because of Said's sheep." "They were looking for the slaughterhouse." "Omar showed them." "You have to go with him to the police." "With Omar?" "No!" "With Said!" "Police station." "They'll expel us from here like dogs." "By God..." "Say that I brought this asshole!" "I should've left him at El-Ouricia!" "Where are you going?" "Go back to your place!" "Fuck!" "I warned you but you have no dignity!" "Because of you the police came!" "You did this to me!" "Bastard!" "Be damned!" "Be damned!" "I never want to see you again!" "Take your luggage, take your shed and get out of here!" "Go away!" "Leave Chaâba!" "Zohra, can you help me revise my poetry?" "Okay?" ""Freedom by Maurice Carême" ""Take a little of the..." "sun in the palm of your hands" ""A little sun and go away." ""Go into the wind." ""Follow your dream." ""Go for a moment, youth is short." ""There are paths unknown by men." "" There are ways..." "That's good, my son." "That's good, continue." ""There are ways so aerial!" ""Don't regret what you leave behind." ""Look over there, the horizon shines." ""Far, farther and farther," ""Keep on singing!" ""The world belongs to those who have nothing." "This was my secret, Omar." "Now it is ours, yours and mine." "If I see someone hanging out here, it is your head I'll tear off." "She is beautiful, huh?" "Who is she?" "It's Hiasmine." "And I call her the prisoner of the Chaâba." "You can't know her." "I don't even know if she has gone from here since she left school." "Because it's like that." "The other girls, you can approach them." "But she's such a treasure... her father went crazy." "And I would give anything to be able to lay my head on her knees." "But you can't understand that." "Yes." "I want it too." "Like you." "Now, go on!" "Read me all this, quick!" "In French you'll understand nothing." " What about not understand?" "I understand French better than you!" "Go on!" "Read!" "Hurry!" ""During a search conducted in the afternoon in a slum," ""the police have discovered an important trafficking of meat," ""operated by North Africans." ""There, in poor hygienic conditions," ""sheep were slaughtered before being cut and sold," ""outside of regulatory control," ""to exclusively North African customers." ""The inspectors insight..." ""has put an end to illegal activities..." ""by these foreigners." ""A severe fine has been imposed..." ""to Mr Bouzid and Said Ketab." "This is me they're talking about, there," Bouzid. "" "Yes." "Continue!" "That's it." " Are you sure?" "Look!" "I got to the end of the line." "And that, what is this?" "It's sport." "C'mon!" "Read!" "It is useless." " Read!" ""The Olympic Lyonnaise, 1" ""The Olympic of Marseille, 3" ""A logical defeat." "You're crying, you're hiding something." "Come here!" "He won't tell you more than me, Dad." "You, you don't talk with me." "And besides, I..." "I'll marry you!" "That way I'll be freed, go on!" "I get married if I want." "She's right, it's sport." "You can't talk to women." "You say one word and they cry." "You're all against me." "What does it mean "the slum"?" " "The slum"?" "It's the Chaâba." "And why do they call us "slum"?" "I don't know." ""Slum"" ""Trafficking"" ""Butchery"" "And my name written inside!" "All of France will know me!" "The police will hunt me." "I know their technique..." "One day they'll say:" ""go back to your country"!" "Good evening." "Come in Bouchaoui, sit down!" "Look, they put my name in this rag!" "It's a big shame." "A shame for all of us!" "When I got off work, the police arrested me..." "They told me: "Papers!"" "They laughed and called me "dirty wog"." "You see..." "My wife ran off to Algeria and left me alone." "My kids do nothing at school." "And I who work endlessly." "For nothing!" "Believe me, Bouzid!" "We must leave!" "Go away?" "Still go?" "Leave?" "You want to leave?" "Get out!" "Get out of here!" "Be damned, you too!" "Leave her!" "NO DUMPING Or face a fine" "What are you doing here?" "You're not at school?" "No." "Don't want to." "My father said that we'll be moving." "Yeah?" "And where will you go?" "I don't know." ""Towards the big buildings", he said." "You want to go to the hut?" "I can't, I'm waiting for Rabah." "Well, see you soon then." "Memoirs of the Chaâba" ""My name is Omar and I'm 9 years old." ""I'm born in a big hospital." ""In France." ""I'm French." ""My father has a small  country of his family." "I know." "A few weeks later," "Toward the new dream of the residents of Chaâba." "Dad..." "I'm going!" " Yeah, go ahead!" "A dream made of words as magical as strange." "Taps that provide hot water as soon as they are turned on." "Central heating." "Electricity." "And many other things." "Wait for me, Hacène!" "I'll be back." "Look!" "Go play somewhere else!" "How will I close my trunk?" "Look!" "Please, take it!" "We'll say it is for both of us." "OK?" "OK." "We're friends." "Come on, get in!" "Hacène, hurry up!" "Faster!" "Dumb-ass!" "When the taxi disappeared at the end of the road, carrying Hacène with it," "I didn't cry, and didn't eat for two days either." "My father and Farid managed to be elsewhere, and my mother didn't want to go out of the house." "But when I got home," "I saw her crying." "Let go!" "Let go!" "And then Sélim and Nasser, in their turn, left." "Come on, get in!" "Next night," "Yasmine, the prisoner of Chaâba disappeared, taken away by her father." "It was Farid who told me." "He too, speaks only about leaving." "He says:" ""Without love, it becomes too difficult, the Chaâba and everything"" "That "without love, you can't fight."" "So he doesn't come to school anymore." "He spends his time hanging out, I don't know where." ""Now it's the summer holidays." ""I spend my days writing and reading." ""I try to forget that Hacène, my friend," ""is no longer here," ""and I miss him terribly." "Finally, they have all gone, one after the other, day after day." "We're alone now, abandoned in the rubble of Chaâba." "I tried to find the right words... to explain my father that it all was over, and that for us too it was time to leave." "I wanna move!" "I wanna move." "I wanna move." " Ah, you want to move!" "No, no." "Stop Daddy, I don't want to move anymore, I swear!" "Well, we're going to move anyway!" "Yeah, I want to move." "I wanna get out of this rotten shack!" "Don't cry." "We're leaving." "It's over." "I wanna move!" "Soon we'll leave." "Tomorrow, God willing." "No, it's not true, you're lying." "I wanna move now." "She was only lying about the date." "We moved three days later," "August 5, 1966." "It hurts me too to leave this place, even if I'm glad to finally discover the world." "Now I'm not afraid anymore." "It's the children who are afraid and my childhood:" "I left it behind me in the ruins of the Chaâba." "Today I look at these big buildings all around me, and I know we're still locked away from the world, and the world continues to move away from us, day after day, like in the Chaâba." "But I'm not afraid." "I'm going to work, read and write." "And when I'm tired of being here, when it will be too hard," "I'll close my eyes and I'll start running towards the stars." "And I'll go so fast, so much faster than the world, that nobody can ever catch me anymore." "And then, only then," "I'll stop." "In real life Omar is called Azouz Begag." "This film is made after his autobiographic novel" ""Le Gone Du Chaâba"." "Today Azouz Begag is a researcher at C.N.R.S. and a writer." "Subtitles by Didgilmar and Subransu"