548996
548996

Letter to My Sister

2006-10-03
8.5
fr 68m
Documentary
Nabila Djahnine, president of the feminist association Thirghri N'tmetout, died in hands of an armed group in Tizi Ouzou (Algeria) in 1995. The Islamists forced women, on pain of death, to wear the hijab or stop working. It was the first time a feminist woman paid with her life. Nabila wrote a letter to her sister Habiba in 1994. This documentary is her answer. In 2006 Habiba comes back to the place to restore her sister’s memory, her point of view, the day of her death and the political moment Algeria was going through at that time.

Writers' Production

Habida Djahnine

Cinematography

Leïla Habchi

Cinematography

Ahmed Messad

Editor

Benoît Prin

Editor

Amina Djahnine

Director

Habiba Djahnine

feminism terrorism algeria north africa algerian civil war (1991-2002) maghreb

Status

Released

Countries

  • Algeria
  • France

Companies

  • Etouchane
  • Polygone Etoilé
  • Momento!