Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina 's canonical 1967 film '' The Winds of the Aures '' depicts a rural farming family whose lives are destroyed by colonialism and war . The plot depicts the tragic plight of a mother who leaves her home in the Aurès mountains of eastern Algeria to search desperately for her son , a nationalist who has followed in his father 's footsteps but been captured by the French army . Symbolically , the film uses the family to represent the fate of the nation : impoverished , exploited , but struggling to be free . The film won an award at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival for Best First Work
1967 Cannes Film Festival
1967 Cannes Film Festival
Cinema of Algeria