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KHAMSA - THE WELL OF OBLIVION

Genre
Fantasy and Animation
Running time
77 minutes
Year
2022
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English and French
Country
Algeria
Director
Vynom
Bio
Producer
Kamal Mouhoune, Khaled Boumriche
Cast
Dima Tourgane
Scriptwriter
A little boy wakes up, finds himself at the bottom of a dark well and realises he can’t remember anything. He is lying on a pile of sand; he gets up, walks through a gallery where fires flare up to guide him, then arrives in a large room and meets Tidar, a strange and enormous but benevolent creature. Tidar explains to the boy that his memories are now locked behind an immense door he must open before they are frozen forever. Thus begins this enchanting Algerian animation about the boy’s journey in search of his past, assisted by Tidar and another creature, no more than a small blue flame with one eye, called Khamsa. That journey will take them through buried cities, petrified forests, marshland and memories that crackle like old recordings. Visually stunning and eerily atmospheric, the story unfolds to become a dark fable about childhood innocence and human progress.

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