Rachida

{{short description|2002 film}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Rachida

| image =

| caption =

| director = Yamina Bachir

| producer = Thierry Lenouvel
Margarita Seguy

| writer = Yamina Bachir

| starring = Ibtissem Djouadi

| music =

| cinematography = Mustafa Ben Mihoub

| editing = Cécile Andreotti
Yamina Bachir

| distributor =

| released = {{film date|2002|5|21|df=yes}}

| runtime = 93 minutes

| country = Algeria

| language = French
Arabic

| budget =

}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3017869/year/2002.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Sandstorm |accessdate=31 October 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} The film was also the first 35mm full-length feature directed by an Algerian woman that was released widespread.{{cite book|last1=Ames|first1=Roy|title=New voices in Arab cinema|date=2015|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington|isbn=9780253015228|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uuueBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12|accessdate=17 December 2015}}

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

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