The House is on Fire, Might as Well Get Warm

2023
Directed by Mouloud Aït Liotna

​​Yanis, a young Kabyl man, is leaving for Paris the following day. He goes to the nearby village to tie up loose ends. There he learns of the death of a childhood friend and meets another at the funeral. A mishap in a café turns his last day in the backwaters of an earthy and soggy Algeria into a road movie, first desperate, then thoughtful and melancholic.

Genre

Fiction

Country

France, Algeria

Duration

43'

Format

HD

Producer

Benjamin Costes & Thibaut Amri / Avant la Nuit

Co producer

Mouloud Aït Liotna & Jules David / L'Oeil Vif Productions

Cast

Mehdi Ramdani, Mohamed Lefkir, Idir Benaibouche, Mustapha Mahfoud, Koceila Mahfoud, Taklit Mlihi, Ghani Aït Liotna, Fares Bouali

Director of photography

Jowan Le Besco

Sound engineer

Hocine Mellal

Editor

Esther Frey

Sound editor

Hugo Rossi

Sound mixer

Jean-François Terrien

Colorist

Graziella Zanoni

Composer

Amazigh Kateb et Ptit Moh

Distributor

MAD Solutions

Festival

Festival de Cannes – Directors’ Fortnight, IndieLisboa International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Cinemed – Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, Brive Film Festival, Douarnenez Film Festival, Béjaïa Cinematographic Encounters, Festival des Cinémas d’Afrique du Pays d’Apt, Verona African Film Festival

Support

CNC, Région Occitanie, AFAC