Kaldûn France 4 broadcast on Abdelwaheb Sefsaf’s exile stage show, Digi Mart USA News: France 4 will broadcast “Kaldûn” on Tuesday, November 17, starting at 10:45 p.m. in the late-evening slot.
The show is a creation by Abdelwaheb Sefsaf that combines theater, singing and live music.
The title refers to New Caledonia, the name given to the territory by Kabyle populations exiled there. The work weaves together three near-simultaneous revolts against the established order: the Paris Commune of 1871, the Mokrani insurrection in Algeria the same year, and the Kanak uprising of 1878.
Communards and Algerian insurgents were both deported to the New Caledonian archipelago, where the Kanak already lived. The show reflects on memory, uprootedness and the forced meeting of destinies that seemed opposed.
Sefsaf, who works as author, director and singer, uses a musical structure that alternates song, texts and scenes. The broadcast is a capture of a work created for the stage and offers television viewers access to a theme rarely covered on screen.
The history of communards deported to New Caledonia is relatively well documented, while the story of Algerian insurgents exiled to the same place is far less known. By bringing these paths together, the production addresses a gap in collective memory and recalls that New Caledonia was, in the nineteenth century, a place of banishment for opponents of the Empire and later the Republic.
The broadcast is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, 2026, at 10:45 p.m. on France 4, classified as a second-part-of-the-evening show in the theater and music genre.
