在这部新闻不死片中,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.
這部紀錄片的導演馬列克‧班斯麥爾（Malek Bensmaïl）深入《祖國報》的編輯室內部，難得地記錄下報社的日常工作狀況，這是以往以新聞媒體為主題的紀錄片很少捕捉到的畫面。從中我們看到了記者、編輯、主管等多方之間的不斷討論和辯論，從政治立場、意識形態、用詞遣字、報導方式、下標、圖片⋯⋯皆可爭論，展現出一個充滿活力和使命熱誠的新聞媒體的內部運作動態。
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.
