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Poignant Michou D'Auber Explores French-Algerian Relations from the Outside-In Identity can be hidden, covered up and denied. But underneath, it's still there. Thomas Gilou's Michou D'Auber is a simple story about an orphan and the couple who takes him in, rendered complex by the events that surround it. Set in the early 1960s, a turbulent time when the north African colony of Algeria is fighting a bitter war of independence against France, nine-year-old Messaoud (Samy Seghir) must leave his Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers when his Algerian-born father can no longer take care of him and h...