The Andalucian House

Waciny Laredj

The Andalucian House

The Andalucian House relays the history of an Algerian house modelled on a villa in Granada through the stories of the people who live there over the centuries. Amongst its many residents are two famous, real-life characters: the first, Dali Mami, a sixteenth-century pirate who fought for the Turks and was responsible, amongst other things, for Miguel de Cervantes's period of captivity in Algeria and the second Emperor Napoleon III, whose wife Eugenie was born in Granada.

Nomination

2011 Longlist