Rachida

Rachida
Directed by	Yamina Bachir
Written by	Yamina Bachir
Produced by	Thierry Lenouvel Margarita Seguy
Starring	Ibtissem Djouadi
Cinematography	Mustafa Ben Mihoub
Edited by	Cécile Andreotti Yamina Bachir
Release date	21 May 2002 (2002-05-21)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Algeria
Languages	French Arabic

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]

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

1. "Festival de Cannes: Sandstorm". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 31 October 2009.
2. 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)