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\n\tAlgerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, whose 1975 drama Chronicles of the Years of Fire <\/em>stays Africa\u2019s solely Cannes<\/a> Palme d\u2019Or to this present day, has died on the age of 91.<\/p>\n \n\tLakhdar-Hamina\u2019s household mentioned the producer and director died at his dwelling within the Algerian capital of Algers on May 23.<\/p>\n \n\tIn quirk of destiny, the Cannes Film Festival screened Chronicles of the Years of Fire<\/em> in its Cannes Classics<\/a> program that day, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the movie\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or, within the presence of the director\u2019s son Malek Lakhdar-Hamina.<\/p>\n \n\tSet between the late Thirties and 1954, the film retells the Algerian War of Independence by the eyes of a peasant farmer, exploring the roots of the motion and depicting the harshness of French colonial rule.<\/p>\n \n\tIn an period during which the movie world had but to begin embracing variety, Lakhdar-Hamina was one of many few African and Arab administrators to place in an everyday look in Cannes from the Nineteen Sixties to the Nineteen Eighties.<\/p>\n \n\tHe competed for the Palme d\u2019Or 4 instances, along with his different contenders together with The Winds of the Aures<\/em>, which received the very best first movie prize in 1967 (now referred to as the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or), in addition to Sandstorm<\/em> (1982) and Last Image (<\/em>1986).<\/p>\n