Vote off

Fayçal Hammoum recounts the 2014 presidential election through nonvoting inhabitants of Algiers who like him are in their thirties Be it Bilel a grocer by default exposed to his customers political babbling or the more politicallycharged comments of Younes a militant FM radio journalist opposed to President Bouteflikas fourth term the variety of conversational scenes in no way changes the determination not to vote for an old man who has been invisible for almost two years The rappers Omar and Brahim are as bereft of hope and voters cards as the Tellek webradio DJ since the match is fixed Moving away from his focus on this subject to film their daily life the filmmaker draws the portrait of a generation who as Bilal says with poignant simplicity just wants to live