Checks and Balances (2015) Online
- Original Title :
- Checks and Balances
- Genre :
- Movie / Documentary
- Year :
- 2015
- Directror :
- Malek Bensmaïl
- Type :
- Movie
- Time :
- 1h 36min
- Rating :
- 6.5/10
Accommodated since Algeria's Bloody Decade of the 1990s in the 'House of the Press', the journalists of the famous daily newspaper El Watan await the completion of their new offices, a symbol of their independence. My camera is embedded in their newsroom as they follow the events of this new Algerian spring... President Bouteflika has set his sights on a 4th term. Beyond what we call the Arab revolutions and other mediatized terms, I wanted this film to serve as a memorial to the women and men, young and less young, who battle daily to safeguard the freedom of information in a politically and socially fossilized country.