# Rachida

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***Rachida*** is a 2002 Algerian [drama film](/source/Drama_film) directed by [Yamina Bachir](/source/Yamina_Bachir). It was screened in the [Un Certain Regard](/source/Un_Certain_Regard) section at the [2002 Cannes Film Festival](/source/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]

## Production details

- Title: Rachida
- Director: Yamina Bachir
- Producer: Jaco Van Dormael, Yamina Bachir
- Screenwriter: Yamina Bachir
- Cinematography: Luis Armando Arteaga
- Editing: Yamina Bachir
- Music: Robert Marcel Lepage
- Production companies: Les Films de la Source (France), INA (France), MIB Filmproduktion (Germany), Tanit Films (Algeria)
- Country of production: Algeria / France / Germany
- Original language: Arabic (Algerian dialect)
- Release year: 2002
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Format: 35 mm, Color
- Filming location: Algiers, Algeria

## 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](/source/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"](http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3017869/year/2002.html). *festival-cannes.com*. Retrieved 31 October 2009.

1. Ames, Roy (2015). [*New voices in Arab cinema*](https://books.google.com/books?id=uuueBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 12. ISBN 9780253015228. Retrieved 17 December 2015.

## External links

- [Rachida](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318011/) at IMDb

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