Yamina Bachir – Rachida (2002)

Rachida lives and teaches in a popular neighborhood in Argel. 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.

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Each coin is a dream – only the nightmare is free in this country.’ This debut tells of a young Algerian woman, who’s shot and left for dead after she refuses to plant a bomb at the school where she teaches. She escapes to a mountain village with her mother, where she eventually regains her confidence and returns to work. The storyline is simple and the camerawork unsophisticated, but writer/director Yamina Bachir-Chouikh attempts to explores some weightier, more awkward subjects, particularly those affecting Algerian women: the pressure on divorced women to hide their faces in shame, the impossibility of marriage for girls who are raped by their kidnappers, as well as the ever present threat of violence and terrorism that plagues her country. JFu.

699MB | 01h 40m | 624 x 336 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/BB5BD7F6FE0DD09/Rachida_-_2002.avi

Language:French | Arabic.
Subtitles:English (Hard-subbed)