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A film about the abuse of power – and the search for forgiveness. Preparing a retrospective at a fashionable gallery, 70-year-old Award-winning French news photographer Albert Tueis realises that something is missing in the exhibition.

He returns to Morocco where as a 19-year-old soldier and photographer for the French army in Marocco 1955, he witnessed atrocities committed by the troops. He took photos, but has never before dared to publish them. In a need to come to terms with his past, the search for the man behind the photos - the man with the gaze - becomes his search for forgiveness.

LE REGARD is an epic story as well as a contemporary drama that is frighteningly current and topical. A Norwegian film in French, taking place in Morocco, about France’s role as a colonial power in Morocco, is seldom seen on the big screen, but equally a burning issue nowadays; a film that questions the Western world’s relation to the rest of the world. Every day we see images of war atrocities and the film portrays the emotions in the people living their everyday lives amidst the consequences of war.

LE REGARD is primarily a journey in the landscape of one person’s guilt, passivity and powerlessness, touching all those involved: Aida in Morocco with a son born out of wedlock, Reda who has wasted away his life, the villagers who accept a salary from the factory which is slowly killing them, the French soldiers who first committed and later concealed their crimes, and especially Albert, who ultimately failed to perform his moral duty.

“Extraordinarily visual feature, beautifully shot by D.O.P Kjell Vassdal
(SOPHIE’S WORLD, FIA!).-“Straightforward and affecting.” Variety