The daily life of an Algerian through the eyes of Bashir, a young man of 25 years old, resident of the popular district of Sidi-Bel-Abbès. Bachir watches every morning the passage of the letter carrier. The answer to his visa for France is slow in coming. He is bored, goes around in circles... It's a total vacuum. But a rumor soon fills his boredom: it concerns the possibility of a change in the distribution of the days of the week. The weekend of Saturday-Sunday, the French, Western and Christian norm, should replace the weekend of Thursday-Friday, the Muslim norm ... Director: Mohamed Latrèche CRITICAL Somewhere in Algeria, Bashir, a young man, is waiting. Who, what? He knows it himself... Waiting is perhaps only a pretext to furnish a life a little too empty, a little too long. So to populate the boredom, to deceive the silence there is the bird that one feeds, the rumor that one pursues, derisory pretexts to meet the other, the others, to still belong to the world or to give oneself the illusion of it...". Rumour, etc. Rumour, etc." is a gentle meditation on boredom to the melancholy sound of "Waiting for Godot", so many small details that haunt the spirit of Bashir sometimes flirt with the absurd. The spectator nonchalantly allows himself to be embarked on this paper boat, looking for symbolic catchphrases to, in turn, like an idle Bashir, give meaning to the sketched landscape. And while questioning himself about the bird that has deliberately taken the path of the cage, he does not feel the boat taking on water to gently drag him into the blind drifts of a purposeless existence, his own perhaps if he is not careful. This promising first short film by Mohammed Latrèche was produced by Gindou Cinéma, following a screenplay competition, as part of the "5 films for Algeria 2003" operation. By Danièle Gambino / Clap Noir