Rachida is a 2002 Algerian drama film directed by Yamina Bachir. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film was also the first 35mm full-length feature directed by an Algerian woman that was released widespread.[2]
Production details
- Title: Rachida
- Director: Yamina Bachir
- Producer: Jaco Van Dormael, Yamina Bachir
- Screenwriter: Yamina Bachir
- Cinematography: Luis Armando Arteaga
- Editing: Yamina Bachir
- Music: Robert Marcel Lepage
- Production companies: Les Films de la Source (France), INA (France), MIB Filmproduktion (Germany), Tanit Films (Algeria)
- Country of production: Algeria / France / Germany
- Original language: Arabic (Algerian dialect)
- Release year: 2002
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Format: 35 mm, Color
- Filming location: Algiers, Algeria
Plot
Rachida lives and teaches in a popular neighborhood in Algiers. Like most of her countrymen, she thinks the conflict which is bleeding out her country does not affect her, until the day she is confronted by a group of terrorists that includes a former student of hers, Sofiane. The group asks her to plant a bomb in her school. When she refuses, the terrorists shoot her in cold blood. She saves her life miraculously and takes refuge in a nearby village.
Cast
- Ibtissem Djouadi – Rachida
- Bahia Rachedi – Aïcha
- Rachida Messaoui En – Zohra
- Hamid Remas – Hassen
- Zaki Boulenafed – Khaled
- Amel Choukh – La mariée
- Abdelkader Belmokadem – Mokhtar
- Azzedine Bougherra – Tahar
- Amal Ksili – Fatima
References
- ^ “Festival de Cannes: Sandstorm”. festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 31 October 2009.
- ^ Ames, Roy (2015). New voices in Arab cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 12. ISBN 9780253015228. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
External links
- Rachida at IMDb
- African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)