'' The Winds of the Aures '' received the Best First Work Award at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Palm . It was also nominated for the Grand Prix at the 5th Moscow International Film Festival in 1967 . It may be considered in its own right the foundational stone of contemporary Algeria cinema . In The Winds of the Aures , Lakhdar-Hamina portrays with painstaking detail the disintegration of a peasant society marred by the structural violence of colonial occupation . The movie is clearly influenced by Soviet cinema and aesthetics , particularly that of Soviet Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko . The director adeptly translated this influence to an Algerian scenario
5th Moscow International Film Festival
5th Moscow International Film Festival
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina