Algerian Lyes Salem wins French award

Algerian Lyes Salem has just won the best short movie award in the 30th ceremony of Cesars, the French movies academy award version of the American Oscar award ceremony. Liberte-Algerie reports that Salem has won this prestigious award for his 30-minute film Cousines (Cousins), which is actually a French-Algerian co-production. The movie, which was filmed in Algiers and in Tipasa back in 2003, takes place in Algeria of the 1990s and tells the story of a young immigrant called Driss, who reunites with her country of origin and relatives, namely with her cousin Nedjama, during her summer vacation.