Chronicle Of The Years Of Fire (Chronique Des Annes De Braise), an account of the period between 1939 and the Algerian War of Independence that won the Palme d'Or in 1975, will screen in Cannes again this year.

Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, the film will be high point of an Algerian evening at Cannes, organised as part of Djazair, France's year-long celebrations of all things Algerian.

Lakhdar-Hamina., who has not made a film since the appropriately named Last Image in 1986, will head a delegation of Algerian artists