Le regard

While arranging a photo exhibition screening of his work in Paris, 70-year-old award-winning French news photographer Albert Tueis realises that something is missing in the exhibition. When he was 19, prior to the declaration of independence to Morocco in 1955, as a young photographer serving with the French Army in the last few days of French colonial rule, he witnessed atrocities committed by his fellow soldiers, not only through his eyes but also through the lens of his camera. Too frightened to do anything with the photos he took, fearing of the possible consequences if it was ever publish, he left it behind. Fifty years later, he returns to Morocco to find the films he had hidden away. Albert's memories, especially of resistance fighter Issa Daoudi and his penetrating accusatory gaze, resurface to haunt him. In order to be at peace, he realized his retrospective exhibition would not be complete without the hidden photo taken fifty years earlier.