Tackling Algerian Terrorism

Algeria/2002/dir Yamina Bachir with Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahia Rachedi and Rachida Messaoui

Young teacher, Rachida is teaching at a school in Algiers, when she is stopped in the street by a group of youths who demand she take a bomb and places it in the school. She recognizes one of the terrorists and refuses. Then she is cold-bloodedly shot in the abdomen and left for dead. Miraculously, she survives. To recover, she hides with her mother in a village far from the city. But terrorism is unavoidable there too.

Won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Amiens International Film Festival in 2002

Saturday 10th March at 9pm

Algeria/France (2002) dir. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh with Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahira Rachedi, and Amel Chouikh